Pictures by J.W. Waterhouse

 

St Eulalia

Date: 1885
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 74 x 46 in
Location: Tate Britain, London, UK



Photo Credit: Tate Gallery, London/Art Resource, NY

This painting earned Waterhouse his election as an Associate of the Royal Academy.

Prudentius says that the body of St Eulalia was shrouded by a miraculous fall of snow when lying exposed in the forum after her martyrdom.

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