Every day, Wilmingtonians encounter legacies of the Bancroft family. Samuel Bancroft Jr. (1840-1915) and William Bancroft (1835-1928) radically reshaped Wilmington by preserving public green space, ...

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 ...

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

Christie’s is honoured to announce The Joe Setton Collection: from Pre-Raphaelites to Last Romantics on 10 December in London. Inspired by Percy Bate’s seminal 1899 book The English Pre-Raphaelite ...

A vision realized : pre-Raphaelitism in the Bancroft collection / Stephen Wildman -- Samuel Bancroft : collector of the pre-Raphaelites / Margaretta S. Frederick -- Charles Fairfax Murray : keeper of ...

This July, Christie’s British & European Art department presents The Isabel Goldsmith Collection: Selected Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist Art. Spanning over 40 years of collecting the auction contains ...

You never know who you'll see in Delaware. On April 21, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber popped into the Delaware Art Museum. According to its social media sites, Webber, the English composer of songs from ...

Andy Grundberg's review of the National Gallery of Art's "Pre-Raphaelite Lens" exhibition ["A brotherhood that inspired a blurred vision," Arts & Style, Nov. 7] was the type of art review that drives ...

Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), Flaming June, c. 1895, Óleo sobre lienzo, 46 7/8 x 46 7/8 pulgadas (119 x 119 cm.), Museo de Arte de Ponce. El Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico doesn’t have to ...

The pre-Raphaelite movement in America: an introduction -- The British brotherhood -- Buchanan Read and the Rossettis -- William J. Stillman: "The American pre-Raphaelite" -- The Crayon: the first ...

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 ...