Wistful posters & prints

Young Girl Seated, 1885 Pierre Auguste Renoir

The Past, 1892 Walter Langley

Margaret Fraser, actress Lizzie Caswall Smith

The Rift Within the Lute, 1861-62 Arthur Hughes

Portrait of Dorothy Morland, 1937 Mark Gertler

The Pained Heart, or 'Sigh No More, Ladies', 1868 Arthur Hughes

Spring Carnations Francis Hunt Throop

Lucy Hessel in a Black Velvet Ribbon, c.1921-25 Edouard Vuillard

Eugenie Maria Wynne, detail Stuart Cox

Flowers from the Woods J.O. Bank

Portrait of Madame Vaussard Claude-Marie Dubufe

A Young Girl with Daisies, 1889 Pierre Auguste Renoir

Illustration for the poem 'Mariana' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1875 Julia Margaret Cameron

Jane, Duchess of Gordon Henry Raeburn

Lady Jane Long, 1793 Thomas Lawrence

Miss Grace Lane Reinhold Thiele

Focus on soccer Anonymous

Mary, Lady Beauchamp-Proctor, c.1782-88 George Romney

Longing, 2015 Silvia Pastore

The Love Letter c.1918 William Strang

Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), English actress Foulsham and Banfield

Illustration for the poem 'Maud' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1865 Julia Margaret Cameron

Tommy Cooper March 1972 Staff

Contemplating soccer Anonymous

The Present, 1845 Charles Robert Leslie

Adrienne Lecouvreur engraved by Pierre Drevet Charles Antoine Coypel

Farewell at the Seafront, 1891 Alfred Emile Stevens

The Mermaid, 1892 John William Waterhouse

A Gypsy Girl, 1880 George Elgar Hicks

Longing for Home Oscar Gustav Rejlander

The Queen and the Page, 1896 Marianne Stokes

Study of a woman reading Jacques-Emile Blanche

Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress, c1900 Karl Karlovich Bulla

The Return After Three Days Julia Margaret Cameron

The Canary, 1913 William McGregor Paxton

1930s woman leaning in wooden chair on beach wearing printed dress holding magazine looking thoughtful Anonymous