The Bayswater Omnibus the bus, holding a handrail with one hand and clasping a hatbox with the other. The side of the carriage behind and above the passengers is covered with advertising posters, including Millais's "Bubbles" painting for Pears soap (Millais studied beside Joy). Visible through the window, a hansom cab passes on the road beyond. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895. It was donated to the Museum of London by the artist's daughter Rosalind B. Joy in 1966. It measures . The Bayswater Omnibus The Bayswater Omnibus is an 1895 oil painting by George William Joy. It has
Isabella (Millais painting) violently kicks a frightened dog while cracking a nut. Millais and his colleague William Holman Hunt had both produced drawings illustrating episodes from the poem, but only Millais worked his up into a full painting (Hunt's 1868 "Isabella and the Pot of Basil" used a completely different composition). Both drawings used distorted perspective and angular poses characteristic of medieval art, by which the Pre-Raphaelites were influenced. Millais also draws on the precedent of William Hogarth's satirical depictions of an arranged marriage "Marriage à-la-mode". The painting is structured with deliberately distorted perspective, elongating the right hand side of the table and