Lady Godiva’s fabled ride through Coventry to protest her husband’s taxation of the townspeople is descriptively rendered in this richly detailed painting by British late Pre-Raphaelite painter and illustrator, John Collier (1850 – 1934). Educated in London and Paris by renowned artists, Collier demanded meticulous, sometimes workmanlike accuracy in his portraiture, as well as his paintings of mythological and historical events. Collier was a founding member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.