Francis Coates Jones painted quiet rooms and flower-filled gardens with women simply at ease in them, and that unhurried stillness is what carries so well into counted cross stitch.
He was an American painter, born in 1857 and died in 1932, and he came from a wealthy Baltimore family with the means to send him to Europe for his training. There he studied under painters including Bouguereau, which was about as strong a grounding as a young American could hope for at the time. What he did with it was unusual for its lack of drama. No battles, no grand allegory. Jones settled on women resting in richly decorated interiors, or standing among flowers in a garden, and he stayed with that subject. It is the sort of work that rewards a slow look.
Other nineteenth-century painters: Henri Pierre Picou, Edward John Cobbett, Francois Martin-Kavel, and Vittorio Matteo Corcos.
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