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Phil, a member of the group, wrote the following interpretation inspired by their response to the painting: The painting was selected by the Harris LGBTQ group to feature in the LGBT+ History Month Trail in 20. In the 1870s he began to devote his attention to marine painting and travelled to Europe in search of dramatic coastal scenery – including the UK, France and Norway. Trost was an American artist from Philadelphia who was influenced by John Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelites. This oil on canvas is titled After A Gale, it was painted by William Trost Richards (1833-1905) in 1903 and purchased by the museum in the same year.

Meanwhile, Alden leads his bride from the ceremony through the Massachusetts woods, riding upon his ‘snow–white bull’. The villagers crowd round Standish, overjoyed at his safe return and eager to hear of his adventures. This news proves to be false, however, and the Captain returns to attend the wedding and beg forgiveness for his anger. In his absence, Alden and Priscilla fall in love and, hearing of Standish’s death, they decide to marry. Furious at this and believing himself to have been betrayed by Alden, he leaves for war against the ‘Indians’. Priscilla, unimpressed that he will not pay court for himself, rejects Standish.

Alden, although in love with the girl, agrees out of duty to his friend. The story depicted here appears in a long poem of 1858 written by the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).Īccording to Longfellow, Standish asks his friend, John Alden, to woo Priscilla on his behalf. Miles Standish (1584-1686) was the Captain of the settlement of Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts, USA.

Dream scene fine art lithograph manchester