The legend of the French hermit Saint Gilles is beautifully illustrated by the so-called Master of St. Gilles (circa 1500) in “St. Gilles and the Hind,” an altar-panel residing in the National Gallery, London. URL: http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/master/stgilles/gilles.html.
Hermits in Art: Nesterov
Russian painter Mikhail Nesterov’s traditional-styled portrait entitled “Hermit” (circa 1889) is available at URL: http://www.abcgallery.com/N/nesterov/nesterov3.html
Hermits in Art: Waterloo
Add to the September 22, 2003 entry on Flemish and Dutch engravers Anthonie Waterloo’s etching “Two Hermits” (circa 1640); available at URL: http://www.wfu.edu/academics/art/pc/pc-waterloo.html.
Chinese eremitism in art
By way of Australian National University comes an assembly by a faculty member of Northwestern University of several interesting images of eremitism from the the 14th-century Yuan period at http://vandyck.anu.edu.au/work/teach/context/faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/art-history/fraser/b40/Eremitism_in_Yuan_Painting.html.
Garden Hermits
Here is a short article on hermits in eighteenth-century English gardens, entitled “Garden Hermits,” with special reference to John Milton and Thomas Wright. The URL is: http://www.suite101.com/print_article.cfm/668/95662