Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Robert Bateman - The Pool of Bethesda - Google Art Project.jpg

The Pool of Bethesda
Voting period ends on 3 Sep 2015  at 00:05:51 (UTC)
 * Reason:English artist Robert Bateman's " key painting", as the article states, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1878. Bateman was architect and painter and also a  horticultural designer. "Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of invalid folk — blind, halt, withered — waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water. Whosoever then first stepped in, after the troubling of the water, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."
 * Articles in which this image appears:Robert Bateman (artist), Pool of Bethesda


 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator: Robert Bateman


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 00:05, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Nice. Good EV at Pool of Bethesda too. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:06, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Interesting. Brandmeistertalk  09:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Very nice; good EV. Seems to be an artist that there wasn't an awful lot known about. SagaciousPhil  - Chat 10:55, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak Support A bit cracks, but not much influence to the whole. Exploringlife (talk) 20:13, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Neutral The cracks full of the sky inside the doorframe when checking carefully. Exploringlife (talk) 20:38, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * If a 125+ year-old oil painting on canvas had no cracks, I would be suspicious of its authenticity, IMO.--Godot13 (talk) 21:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Can't restore? Exploringlife (talk) 21:59, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Exploringlife- If you restore the image of a unique art work, then the image is no longer an accurate (encyclopedic) representation of that work... Cracks, chips, even damage are all important to document in well-known works of art, in my opinion.--Godot13 (talk) 23:01, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Good EV, nice image.--Godot13 (talk) 20:29, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support -- Good to me. DreamSparrow  Chat   04:18, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support I agree. --Tremonist (talk) 12:44, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support —Jobas (talk) 09:35, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support --Yann (talk) 22:40, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 03:54, 3 September 2015 (UTC)