Writers Hard At Work For ‘National Novel Writing Month’

The month of November is not only for ‘Movember”, but also for National Novel Writing Month (aka ‘NaNoWrMo’).



To inspire your remaining 9 days and nights of literary abandon, we’ve found writers hard at work, captured in art on The Bazaar.







St. Ildefonsus (oil on canvas) by El Greco





Just a Few Notes, 1997 (oil on canvas) by Patricia Espir





Portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) writing out his epitaph, engraved by Renold Elstrack (1571-c.1630) 1613 (engraving) by English School





The Writer (oil on canvas) by Gabriel Metsu





Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) engraved by Jacob Folkema (1692-1767) (engraving) (b/w photo) by William Kent





St. Jerome Writing, c.1604 (oil on canvas) (detail of 64912) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio





Portrait of a Writer, 1772 (oil on canvas) by Domnique Doncre





Leo Tolstoy (1818-1910) in his Study, 1891 (pencil on paper) by Ilya Efimovich Repin





Felix Feneon (1861-1944) at 'La Revue Blanche', 1896 (oil on card) by Felix Edouard Vallotton





Voltaire (1694-1778) in his Study (oil on canvas) by French School