William T. Howell Allchin

This painter made quiet, close-up scenes of everyday things in oil paint. One of them shows a book left open with reading glasses resting on the page. Another features a tabletop spread with fruit, cloth, and a silver cup. Their style sits between the careful detail of 17th-century Dutch still lifes and the softer lighting of early 19th-century British genre scenes. See the lined paper and tarnished metal in Still Life with an open Book and Spectacles, then tap to zoom in on the folds of the tablecloth and the way the light catches the spectacles.