The Landlady was painted in 1856. The oil painting on canvas advertises “furnishes apartments” on the window; note too the venetian blinds and geraniums, familiar signals of Victorian.
James Collision ostensibly shows a landlady at a window, about to let a room to an observed tenant, subliminally, or perhaps no so subtly it suggests that she, too, is “to let” and hence represents another inversion painting like Hunt’s “Awakening Conscience.” James Collinson (1825–1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850.The Landlady by James Collinson
