Author: Steve Melcher

Arthur Hacker, English

“Well, This Has Just Been One of Those Mondays. First the Fall of Afghanistan and Now This,” 1902

Oil on panel

Arthur Hughes, English

“Like It? It’s You Carved From Five Pounds of Fresh Atlantic Salmon,” ca. 1886

Oil on canvas

John Faed, British

“I’m Considering Updating a Few of My Plays For Modern Audiences. Do You Guys Think I Should Start With ‘The Online Merchant of Venice’ or ‘The Real Merry Housewives of Windsor?,'” 1851

Oil on canvas

 

John Faed, Scottish

Portrait of the Woman Who Used To Make Elvis’s Jumpsuits, 1840

Oil on canvas

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French

When Daphne Kept Sleeping Through Her iPhone Alarm, She Decided To Explore Other Options, 1842

Oil on canvas

Richard Redgrave, English

Now That She’d Moved the Table To Where the Bed Used To Be, Nancy Wondered If She Should Also Move the Mirror on the Ceiling, 1846

Oil on canvas

 

Francesco Hayez, Italian

“Yeah I Know You Think It’s Uncomfortable, But They Aren’t Letting Anybody Into the Ball Without a Mask,” 1851

Oil on canvas

 Miles Chance, British

Scene From the Controversial War Movie “Apocalypse Nude,” 1943

Watercolor

John William Godward, British

When You Try To Draw Jupiter But It Comes Out Looking Like Some Dude Standing on a Toilet, 1915

Oil on canvas

Horace Vernet, French

“Captain, I Think This Is the Beginning of a Beautiful French Ship,” 1841

Oil on canvas