On “Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman” at the Watts Gallery, Surrey. It must have been fun to be a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but what about the ...
THE Pre-Raphaelite movement got bad press in the early 20th century. It tended to be lumped in with everything a new generation disliked about the Victorian period: the realism, the moralism, the ...
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, ...
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, ...
Striking in her beauty but self-effacing in her tone, Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman is a virtual unknown to American audiences. Yet the Delaware Art Museum took a gamble this month ...