During his quick research for the post that is just below this one, PG learned that Charlotte Brontë was a big fan of an English artist named John Martin.
A print of Martin’s painting, Belshazzar’s Feast hung on the parlor wall of the Brontë parsonage. So great was her admiration that Charlotte and her brother, Bramwell, made copies of three of Martin’s paintings and hung them in the parsonage.
Here’s a copy of Martin’s Belshazzar’s Feast:
And Deluge:
And Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon:
You can find much larger versions of each of the paintings at Wikimedia Commons.
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For a strange reason PG is unable to explain, these three paintings and their reflection upon some of the residents of the Brontë parsonage reminded him of his relationship with an old girlfriend (who left the scene long before he met Mrs. PG).