This meant that, as I went through the Waterhouse exhibit, I kept looking at the women and thinking "They didn't have suffrage when Waterhouse painted them."
Other recurring themes: Lots of birds, especially pigeons. Every throne has its footstool - they are all too tall for those seated in them. Gorgeous turquoises. Tim Rice owns a lot of Waterhouse paintings.
It's a pleasant exhibit if - like most - a little crowded, paintings hung without a whole lot of thought as to conflict crowds of onlookers. It has most of his greatest hits, a number of preliminary works, and gives a good sense for historical development. Disturbingly, I realized I have most of the objects necessary to recreate one of his Circes in Playmobil; that I noticed this is somewhat worrying. In several of the rooms, his sketchbooks were juxtaposed with the final paintings; this is how I observed that, given the right small detail to indicate in an otherwise sublimely elegant casual sketch, even Waterhouse will draw smiley faces. (See icon.)