Painting and Sculpture

Macbeth and the Witches

Macbeth and the Witches is an 1850 oil painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. Combining landscape and history painting it is inspired by William Shakespeare's of the play Macbeth. The scene is of bleak-looking Scottish mountain country. Macbeth is shown accompanied by Banquo is shown approaching the witches, which occurs in Act I, Scene 3 of the play. The work was commissioned by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel for his gallery of Shakespearean pictures. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1850 at the National Gallery in London where it was reviewed by The Athenaeum. Today the painting is in the collection of the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, having been acquired in 1890.

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• ▸Ecce Homo (Bosch, Indianapolis)
• ▸Church of St. Trophime, Arles
• ▸DePaul Art Museum

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