[Sam Cree]

A pretty great example of Victorian realist art located here:

http://virtualart.admin.tomsk.ru/eakins/eakins10.jpg

Note the lacy (and what we think of as typically Victorian, which I suppose it was) dress hanging on the chair next to the model who is posing for the ship carver William Rush.

Note the model, of course.

Thomas Eakins, American, 1877.

[Fedora]

So that's actually an American Victorian painting rather than a British one? Interesting--when I think "Victorian" I usually think British first, but come to think of it there was a realist trend in American painting at that time, also, wasn't there? I remember looking at some paintings of the Old West that were done in a realist style--unfortunately I forget the artist, but they did a lot of frontier paintings.