William Frederick Yeames
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William Frederick Yeames was a British painter of genre and narrative subjects, often drawn from history. He is probably still best known for his oil-on-canvas "And When Did You Last See Your Father?"
Portrait by John Watkins, 1860s
Yeames by J. P. Mayall from Artists at Home photogravure
"And When Did You Last See Your Father?" by Yeames (1878), 131 cm (51.57 in) by 251.5 cm (99.01 in)
Amy Robsart (1870)
Problem picture
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A problem picture is a genre of art popular in late Victorian painting, characterised by the deliberately ambiguous depiction of a key moment in a narrative that can be interpreted in several differen
William Frederick Yeames
…story was revealed by close study of the actions and expressions of the subjects. In Yeames's work, this technique evolved into the genre known as the problem picture, in which the narrative of the image creates an unresolved dilemma or paradox for the viewer. In 1905, he painted a mural for the Royal Exchange, London…
Defendant and Counsel (1895), by William Frederick Yeames, a problem picture which invites the viewer to speculate on the woman's alleged crime and on whether or not she may be guilty.
The Camden Town Murder by Walter Sickert, 1908, originally titled, What Shall We Do for the Rent? or What Shall We Do to Pay the Rent