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Sweethearts and Wives[edit]

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Original – John Lee's Sweethearts and Wives (1860). A fine example of a harbour scene, done in the pre-Raphaelite style. It has been suggested that the rightmost sailor is a self-portrait of John Lee.
Reason
A high-quality image of an interesting artist's work.
Articles in which this image appears
John Lee (artist), HMS Majestic (1853), British Marine Art (Romantic Era), List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
John Lee, photo by the Google Art Project.
  • Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:46, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, good scene, but slightly soft at full size IMO. Brandmeistertalk 21:28, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • That might be the painting, not the photo. I'm really not sure; I only do watercolours myself, and it looks a bit like effects you commonly get in watercolours, but I don't know if that happens with oils ever. It's a rather unusual technique, anyway. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:48, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Very nice. Alborzagros (talk) 15:05, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose--a poor example of pre-Raphaelite art by a very minor painter. You'd better off picking Google Art images at random. Boo-Boo Baroo (talk) 23:17, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support If this really is Lee's masterpiece, with a possible self portrait of the artist, then this has EV. However, I agree that it's quite soft and, without seeing the painting to see if it's in the original, I can't put myself behind it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:02, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral per Crisco. --Pine✉ 18:24, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Oppose It's a soft image and the above EV issues. Cat-fivetc ---- 11:26, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose As above (more or less), bad painting by very minor artist. Inclusion in List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings is inappropriate when there are no illustrations of well known paintings - are lists supposed to be illustrated? ProfDEH (talk) 12:30, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:51, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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