The Lover’s World by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

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An adept artist Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale is known for her paintings depicting the romantic fantasies and incidents centralizing the lady figures. They are mostly represented from the perspectives of the women, which is more acceptable as women tend to be more sensitive and naïve in the matters of love.

The current depiction called The Lover’s World is one of the best works executed by the artist. It is also a fine example to represent the fantasy the girls’ lives in while they fall in love with someone (fantasies of boys is a totally different thing and could not be resembled from the current portrayal). In the scene, the girl seems like wandering in her own world, which exists in her mind or in her dream. Because there is fine mixture of real and fantasy elements representing the sensation of languor love. There are love-fairies flying around everywhere spreading the affection, a pair of love-birds is sitting together on a branch of unknown plant, kissing each other (the girl is directly looking at them with longing posture) and the doves flying around being the symbol of peace which one feels while having deep affection for someone. Two fairies are putting a flowery tiara on the girl’s head making her the queen of the imaginary realm. The fairies around the legs are gathering some magical frost lying above the ground in their little baskets, maybe to empty it on the girl’s head to keep the girl’s enchantment continue. The rain-bow in the backdrop just adds the aesthetic beauty to the scene.

Thus, all the elements the artist has pulled together to create the lover’s world successfully produces the desired effect on the viewer’s mind.

In the past, there have been many artists to depict the aspect of love on canvas, but most of the times; the depictions were biased with nudity or sensuality. But here the lady artist Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale from England has perfectly captured the emotional state of a girl while being in love, instead of the physical attractions which has been portrayed most of the time wrongly to capture the emotion of pure love.