'Midsummer is an 1887 oil painting by the British artist Albert Joseph Moore. It depicts three nearly life-sized woman in classical Greek dress in the intense heat of midsummer. Moore was a key member of the Aesthetic movement of the later Victorian era, and this is one of the best-known images of Aestheticism which championed "art for art's sake" over more traditional narrative arts.https://russellcotes.com/collection-piece/midsummer/ It has been described as "a signature example of Aestheticism".Kresser p 36
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1887 at Burlington House in London. The picture is today in the collection of the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery in Bournemouth, having been acquired in 1936.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/midsummer-58771
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Bibliography Bills, Mark. Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: A Wealth of Depictions. Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, 2001. Kresser, Katie. Church Beautiful: Sacred Art and Spiritual Healing. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2026.