Apsley House classical myth
from Catalogue of Paintings in the
Wellington Museum, Apsley House, by C.M. Kauffmann, rev. by S. Jenkins (English
Heritage, 2009)
Catalogue numbers
no. 27, ascribed to Cignani, Venus and
Adonis, inv. no. 213 OGCMA0035Adonis_Cignani
no. 60 & 61, Giovanni Francesco
Barbieri Guernico,
Mars
as a Warrior
Venus
and Cupid
OGCMA0199AresAphrodite_Guercino3
no. 76, Jan van Huysum and/or Nicolaas
Verkolje, The Rape of Proserpina OGCMA0862NOTPersephoneGL_Huysum
no. 121, ascribed Il Padovanino,
Orpheus Enchanting the Animals OGCMA0776OrpheusGL_Padovanino
no. 126, Jean-François-Pierre Peyron,
Athenian Girls drawing lots to determine which among them shall be sent to
Crete for Sacrifice to the Minotaur (1782) OGCMA0667NOTMinotaur_Peyron
no. 151, Jusepe de Ribera, la Spagnoletto,
"Hecate: procession to a witches' Sabbath'OGCMA0492Hecate_Ribera
no. 157, after Peter Paul Rubens,
"Hercules and the Nemean Lion," OGCMA0552NOTHeraclesNemeanLion_Rubens
no. 158, Rubens, "Hercules wresting
with Achelous in the Form of a Bull",
OGCMA0537HeraclesDeineira_Rubens