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, ...
Ophelia by John Everett Millais (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia ...
More than 100 drawings and sketches brought together over a 30-year period by Canadian Dr Dennis T Lanigan are on show in the UK for the first time. The collection comprises works by around 60 of the ...
Adorning the green velvet walls is a selection of paintings and drawings. Encased just steps away are stained glass, silver and crystal objects. Textiles, jewelry and decorative arts also are ...
WASHINGTON —Just in time for the spring influx of school trips and Easter vacations, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is hosting two exhibits about the Pre-Raphaelites painters of 19th ...
These Victorian painters are often framed as a guilty pleasure. But, as this intriguing exhibition makes clear, there is actually very little to feel guilty about After four years of closure, the ...
"First published in 2011 by Faber and Faber ltd." Contents Birmingham 1833-52 -- Oxford 1853-5 -- Northern France 1855 -- Early London 1856-7 -- Little Holland House 1858 -- First Italian Journey 1859 ...
Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...
Publication date from publisher's Web site. "Checklist of works exhibited in Washington": pages 246-249. "The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's ...
A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: Evelyn & William De Morgan in Wilmington, Delaware, showcases paintings and ceramics by two underrecognized yet influential artists. Evelyn De Morgan, “Flora” (detail) ...
Women have been written out of art history. Why doesn’t anybody say so? It took me half a lifetime to realise that the story of art I’d grown up with was a story written by men, about men. I didn’t ...
A decade doesn't go by without at least one major Pre-Raphaelite or Arts and Crafts exhibition in Britain. It's difficult to imagine a time when Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was not popular. Born in ...