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A 19th-century painting by Andrew Carrick Gow depicting Oliver Cromwell at the head of the New Model Army at the battle of Dunbar in Scotland in September 1650 during the English Civil Wars (1642-51). (Tate Collection, Lonodon)

Dancing Scene in the Caribbean, oil on canvas by Agostino Brunias, sometime between 1764 and 1796. The painting depicts men and women of African descent dancing on a Caribbean island, most likely St. Vincent or Dominica, where the Italian-born...

The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1888. It depicts the following lines of Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott: And down the river's dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance, Seeing all his own mischance...

An 1879 painting titled 'Remnants of an Army' by Elizabeth Thomson showing Dr William Brydon, the sole European survivor of the Retreat from Kabul in 1842 during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42). (Tate Britain)

Christ Raises the Daughter of Jairus, painting by Henry Thomson, 1810. Tate Britain Gallery, London.

A c. 1790 oil on canvas portrait by John Opie of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), the feminist writer. (Tate Britain, London)

The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas by Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735–1811). Oil on canvas. On display at Tate Britain, London, Room 6.

The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides, oil on canvas by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1806. In ancient Greek mythology, the Garden of the Hesperides was situated on the slopes of Mount...

A 1788 oil on canvas painting, The Age of Innocence, by Joshua Reynolds (1723-92). The painting reflected a wider movement in the arts where artists were concerned with capturing the innocence of childhood, something which had been threatened...

Napoleon crossing the bridge to Lobau Island during the War of the Fifth Coalition, 1809, oil paint on wood, by Richard Caton Woodville, Jr, 1912. Tate, London.