The Scene Everyone Skips: George Edward Robertson's Lady of Shalott Arrives at Camelot (1900)
The Scene Everyone Skips: George Edward Robertson's Lady of Shalott Arrives at Camelot (1900) Picture "The Lady of Shalott" and one image almost certainly comes to mind: a woman alone in a boat, hair loose, candles guttering, drifting down a river toward her death. That is John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting, reproduced on more posters and postcards than perhaps any other single scene from Tennyson. But Tennyson's poem does not end with her drifting alone. It ends with her arrival — already dead — at Camelot, and with the crowd of knights and ladies who come out to see what has washed up at their door, Lancelot among them. Almost nobody paints that part. George Edward Robertson, a Royal Academy regular better known for scenes of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, did. Quick facts Artist: George Edward Robertson (British, 1864–1920) Date: 1900 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 137.8 × 194.3 cm (54¼ × 76½ in) Locati...