William Powell Frith. A Day at Sea side. Detail. Painted between 1852 and 1854. Queens Gallery. Buckingham Palace. Henry Stone

The Old Workhouse. Holy Cross School and Holy Cross Church. Detail from a Mural Painted in 1991. by the Children of Holy Cross. Beacon Press

Gladstone Land Detail of Woodcarving on the Four Poster Bed in the Painted Chamber of an Edinburgh Merchant House in the Royal Mile. Woodmansterne Publications Ltd. Malcolm Osman

Buckingham Palace. The Queen Gallery. A Day at the Sea Side. detail. Painted summer Holiday at Ramsgate. Henry Stone and Son Ltd. William Powell Frith

Winchester. Westgate. Detail from the Painted Wooden Ceiling Installed in Winchester College by the Warden. John White before 1554. Photo Precision Limited

Pompei. Villa Dei Misteri. Detail of the Large Painting. F. E. P. Falanga Edizioni Pompeiane

Grotte De Lascaux. Detail from Prehistoric Painting in Caves of Lascaux. France. Braun. Soho Card 342. Soho Gallery

Freer Gallery of Art. Lady With Puppet. Detail of a Japanese Painting