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.
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, ...
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 ...
In 1855, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, student friends at Oxford, decided to abandon their theological studies and become artists. They turned for guidance to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a leader ...
Two exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ballarat offer visitors a chance to get up close with Pre-Raphaelite works. In partnership with the Art Gallery of Ballarat, we sit down with the gallery’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
There are at least two ways to look at the mid-19th century group of British artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: as upstarts riding a wave of revolutionary ideas and new ways of seeing…or ...
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 ...
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the English composer of scores of Broadway musicals like "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera" and is ...
The largest exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite drawings and watercolours will be on display in Birmingham from this weekend. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going ...
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