Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ painting The Blind Girl (1854–56) shows two girls sitting in a bright green meadow with a double rainbow in the background. While the younger girl stares ...
In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In 1855, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, student friends at Oxford, ...
Henry Wallis, “Chatterton” (c. 1855–56), oil on canvas, 62.2 x 93.3 cm (24 1/2 x 36 3/4 in), Tate Gallery, London (all images courtesy the National Gallery of Art) In its first iteration in London, ...
The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...
"Isabella and the Pot of Basil" by William Holman Hunt will be sold at auction in London The Delaware museum boasts the most significant collection of Pre-Raphaelite works outside of the United ...
Evelyn De Morgan, “Flora” (detail) (1894), oil and gold leaf on canvas (© De Morgan Collection, courtesy the De Morgan Foundation) A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: Evelyn & William De Morgan, opening ...
Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as revealing new insights into influential artworks.
America's first Pre-Raphaelite : William James Stillman -- The American Pre-Raphaelite landscape and Thomas Charles Farrer -- Architects of reform : Peter Bonnett Wight and Russell Sturgis, Jr. -- Pre ...
Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...
The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...
(1868–77), Sir Edward Burne-Jones. (Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The deeply artificial spontaneity and double-jointed, proto-hipster nostalgia of the Pre-Raphaelites, which feel strangely ...