lots of color!

Used the newly available synthesized pigments:

cobalt blue, chromium oxide, zinc yellow,chromoe yellow,barium and strontium chromates, Mars orange, emerald green

the transition: 1800-1850

why? New pigments from Chemistry

'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' by Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877-1934)
Flaming June 1895: Frederick Leighton (1830-1896).

'Echo and Narcissus'

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

Basket of Flowers, 1848–49
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
Oil on canvas
The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne, 1864
Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
Oil on canvas
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1848