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 ...
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 ...
My mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The ...
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 ...
The Pre-Raphaelites don’t go away. Those hyper-religious, medievally fixated Victorian death-obsessives may seem perennial candidates for the dustbin of history, but iconic Pre-Raph works such as ...
Highlights of our sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art on 15 December include the recently rediscovered The Bird’s Nest by Sir George Clausen and important paintings by his ...
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 wistful maidens and valiant knights of Pre-Raphaelite art can strike the modern viewer as sentimental claptrap from the Victorian age. But a new exhibition of this British art at the National ...
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) ...
"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 ...
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, ...
Christie’s British Art: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art auction in London features a curated selection of works representing more than 150 years of history and encompassing a ...