page_title: Henrietta Rae
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Henrietta Rae / Works
caption_attribution_description: Topic-LCSH: Crimean War, 1853–1856. Military nursing. Patients. Nurses. Lamps. Care of the sick. Crimean War, 1853–1856 -- Women. Kindness. War -- Relief of sick and wounded. Genre/Technique: Chromolithographs. Portrait prints. Subject name: Nightingale, Florence, 1820–1910
context_page_description: Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae was a prominent English painter of the late Victorian era, who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her best-known painting is The Lady with the Lamp; depicting Florence Nightingale at Scutari.
context_section_description: Rae specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her painting Elaine Guarding the Shield of Lancelot (1885) drew inspiration from the Tennyson poem Lancelot and Elaine.  Among her many other paintings in the classical vein, Eurydice Sinking Back to Hades (1886) won Honorable Mention at the 1889 International Exhibition in Paris and a medal at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.  Her 1891 painting Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854), of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, has been frequently reproduced, and is generally referred to as The Lady with the Lamp.
  Rae's Psyche at the Throne of Venus (1894) measures 12 by 7 feet (370 by 210 cm) and contains 13 figures. Her painting Sir Richard Whittington Dispensing His Charities (1900) depicts Richard Whittington; a medieval merchant and four-time Lord Mayor of London. She also painted many socially prominent people; including Lord Dufferin in 1901.
  Her works include:
  Love's young dream (1883)
  Elaine guarding the shield of Lancelot (1885)
  Ariadne (1885)
  Eurydice Sinking Back to Hades (1886)
  Zephyrus and Flora (1888)
  Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854) (1891)
  Psyche at the throne of Venus (1894)
  Apollo and Daphne (1895)
  Diana and Calisto (1899)
  Sir Richard Whittington dispensing his Charities (1900) Mural at the Royal Exchange, London
  The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1901)
  Hylas and the water nymphs (1910)
  John Horner 1858-1919 (1913) in Ulster Museum collection
caption: The Lady with the Lamp; a popular lithographic reproduction of her best-known painting
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