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Happy Birthday to polymath, May Morris: designer of wallpaper, jewellery, textiles, stained glass and many other arts and crafts. She was also an embroiderer, author, editor, lecturer, artist, feminist, socialist and business woman.
#OTD
#MayMorris
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Happy May Day, we stand with workers all around the world in solidarity, for International Workers' Day.
To celebrate are three illustrations Walter Crane created for socialist magazines. He combines Arts and Crafts politics with May Day/Beltane seasonal traditions.
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Happy May Day, today we stand with workers all around the world in solidarity, for International Workers' Day.
In 1889, the International congress of socialist parties met in Paris and decided to celebrate Labour Day or Worker's Day on 1st May. …
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A view of one of the incredible eight rooms of ‘The Rossettis’ exhibition, opening at
@Tate
today.
This gallery focusses on the artistic collaboration and personal relationship between Siddal and Rossetti. Seeing their artwork in conversation next to each other is wonderful.
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Happy Birthday Jane Burden (later Morris) born
#OTD
in 1839. Embroiderer & artist's model extraordinaire whose face has become a landmark of Pre-Raphaelite (technically late Rossettian!) paintings. Featured: Daisy hangings for Red House 1860 & 'Je Puis' signature on Kelmscott Bed
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🎉 Happy birthday to polymath May Morris (1862-1938)- artist, designer, embroiderer, writer, editor, lecturer, activist and astute business woman, among her many other talents. She also loved travelling and camping with her life partner and soulmate, Mary Lobb. 🎉
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Sharing some hope, as I want to reiterate that it’s fine to disagree with an interpretation of a painting but whenever I make a post about Queerness/ the LGBTQ+ community, I get lots of interesting comments/direct messages but also a couple of horrible and nasty ones. 1/2
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Excellent English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, writer & editor May Morris died
#OTD
in 1938. May was the younger daughter of William Morris & artists' model & embroiderer Jane Morris. In 1907, May founded the Women’s Guild of Arts with Mary Elizabeth Turner.
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Happy Boxing Day! In the UK the day after Christmas Day is known as Boxing Day. The name refers to the boxing up of gifts to give to the poor. Boxing Day was also a day off for servants and they received a Christmas box from their employers.
‘Pandora’, John William Waterhouse.
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As it’s
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
, ladies dressed in green for
#WearItGreenDay
. The theme for this year is Anxiety, as someone who suffers from this myself I know how debilitating and isolating it can be. Do reach out to your loved ones and check on each other.
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Margaret and her sister Frances McDonald for
#SisterhoodSunday
.
Excitingly, they created a set of illustrations for William Morris' ‘Defence of Guenevere’, that was recently re-discovered in the special collections of the University at Buffalo.
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Leaves, leaves, leaves- everywhere! 🍂🍁🍃
Anyone else finding the seasonal shedding a handful?
Here is Millais's exquisite 'Mariana' (1851, Tate) with details of the leaves having fluttered onto her embroidery & joining the wee mouse alongside Tennyson's 'mouldering wainscots'
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Gratitude for an abundance of bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) in full bloom across the British Isles at the moment
#MondayMood
.
Over half the world’s populations of Bluebells grow in the UK.
In folklore, bluebells ring at daybreak to call fairies to the woods.
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Happy Birthday Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, born
#OTD
in 1829! It seems impossible to do his incredible & prolific career justice in just 3 images but here are perhaps those which represent Millais at his most intensely 'Pre-Raphaelite'.
#MillaisMonday
@Tate
@BM_AG
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2 magical offerings from British painter Beatrice Offor (1864-1920) for this week's
#SisterhoodSunday
: 'Circe' and 'The Crystal Gazer' c.1900 (whereabouts unknown)
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Bit Blowy? J.W.Waterhouse provides atmosphere and anemones in 'WindFlowers' (1903, private collection) for this week's
#MondayMood
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Fond Farewell: my final post on stepping down from PRS social media (& as editor of our journal). I've greatly enjoyed posting over the last 4 years! Here are some PRB favourites plus a wee selfie in an obligatory Pre-Raph wig! (everyone should have one, right?😉) Thank You 😊
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Divine Drawings: the sublime sketchwork of Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919) for this week's
#StudySaturday
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Happy Birthday William Morris!
Artist, designer, weaver, embroiderer, calligrapher, poet, novelist, social activist...polymath & genius!
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Victorian Radicals: Birmingham’s world-famous Pre-Raphaelite art collection is to go on display in its home city! This is the first time in over 5 years that the collection exhibits in Birmingham. The exhibition opens at the Gas Hall on 10th February 2024.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti died
#OTD
in 1882 aged only 53
Here are some of his late works- broodingly beautiful, glowing & almost hallucinogenic....
Photo by Lewis Carroll c.1863
Astarte Syriaca 1877 (Manchester Art Gall)
A Vision of Fiammetta 1878 (ALW coll)
The Day Dream 1880 (V&A)
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Beatrix Potter was born
#OTD
in 1866. The Potter family were friends with Millais & Beatrix's incredible myopic studies of fungi surely echo the early Pre-Raphaelite fidelity to nature. Flora & Fauna abound in Beatrix's work, magical microcosms with a wonderful cast of characters
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Wooing Words: 'A Sonnet' by William Mulready (1838, V&A) for this week's
#WilliamWednesday
: One critic observed 'The youth is fiddling with his shoe-tie, but casts an upwards sly look, to ascertain what effect his lines produce upon the merry maid who reads them...'
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So important to see Siddal and Rossetti’s art side by side and understand the mutual collaboration and inspiration.
#TheRossettis
exhibition at
@Tate
Britain is not to be missed. Thank you to the curators
@caroljjacobi
and
@_jamesfinch
.
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'Oh, What's That in the Hollow' by Edward Robert Hughes (1895 Royal Watercol Soc) for this week's
#TuesdayTale
. Inspired by Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Amor Mundi' 'Oh, what’s that in the hollow, so pale I quake to follow?/Oh, that’s a thin dead body which waits the eternal term'
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Self-isolating? Stuck at home? You are in poetic company this
#WaterhouseWednesday
alongside Tennyson's Mariana & the Lady of Shalott.....
'Mariana in the South' (1897 (priv. coll.)
'The Lady of Shalott' 1894 (Leeds Art Gall)
'I am Half Sick of Shadows' 1915 (Toronto Art Gall.)
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Jane Burden, later Morris, was born
#OTD
in 1839. Embroiderer, model, muse and icon, she would outlive most of her PRB colleagues and friends. Happy Birthday Jane!
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Spoken by Lord Darlington in Oscar Wilde’s, ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Play About a Good Woman’, first performed in 1892. In this line he is speaking about men and their treatment of women.
#FridayFeeling
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'Mariana' (1851, Tate) with the wind-blown autumn leaves littering her embroidery & the floor of the lonely moated grange, for this week's
#MillaisMonday
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Spirits of the Solstice, the exquisitely ethereal 'Midsummer Eve' (c.1908
@BMAGimages
) by Edward Robert Hughes for this week's
#MagicMonday
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This
#MillaisMonday
we herald the artist's haunting and meticulously vivid 'Ophelia' (1851-2, Tate), arguably his most famous work, accompanied by 3 other Ophelias (1889, 1894 & 1910) by John William Waterhouse who died
#OTD
in 1917
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Jamaican-born Fanny Eaton (1835-1924) was
#BornOnThisDay
. During the 1860s she modelled for many Pre-Raphaelite paintings including those by Joanna Boyce Wells, D.G.Rossetti, Simeon Solomon, Frederic Sandys, Rebecca Solomon & Millais
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For this
#StudySaturday
we return to the exhibition, ‘The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story’ at
@tulliecarlisle
.
I love the visual journey, showing Waterhouse’s process of creating the ‘The Lady of Shalott’. From drawing to oil sketch and final painting.
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Does any other painter capture the windswept look as gracefully as Waterhouse? Here are some beautiful examples for this week's
#ThursdayTheme
: 'Windflowers' (1902), 'Boreas' (& study) (1903) & a detail from 'Miranda' (The Tempest) (1916)
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Bare Branches and the Flutter of Feathers: a wintry chorus with Charles Francis Annesley Voysey's beautiful textile design of 'Birds of Many Climes' (c.1918, V&A Museum) for this week's
#TuesdayTheme
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The magical & intensely detailed book illustrations of Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916) for this week's
#SisterhoodSunday
. Born Eleanor Gordon with a family seat at Ellon Castle, Aberdeenshire, Boyle's watercolours reveal a reverence for nature as well as a fantastical imagination.
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It's the 23rd December and the final day of our Advent Calendar.
#PRSFestiveCalendar
Day 23 reveals:
Edward Burne-Jones, 'Adoration of the Magi', Musée d'Orsay, France.
Come back tomorrow for the final day of the
#PRSFestiveCalendar
!
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Frank Cadogan Cowper was born
#OTD
in 1877. Referred to as 'The Last Pre-Raphaelite', he took aspects of Pre-Raphaelitism into the 1950s. Here Vanity (1907, RA) & The Four Queens Find Lancelot Sleeping (priv.coll) exhibited @ RA in 1954 (note the Hollywood hairdos & make-up!)
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Happy Birthday to artist Annie Swynnerton (1844-1933). She became the first elected woman member at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1922. (Moser and Kauffmann were technically invited to be members).
For more information listen to
@PreRaphPodcast
with
@womanandsphere
.
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And a bonus tweet as it's so sublimely beautiful! 'Midsummer Eve' by Edward Robert Hughes (1908, private collection). Wishing everyone a very magical Summer Solstice!🧚♀️🧚♂️
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Seasonal Serenade: as we move through August and Autumn is calling, it's time to celebrate 'A Masque for the Four Seasons' by Walter Crane (1905-1909, oil on canvas, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt) for this week's
#WednesdayWonder
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Autumnal hues this
#WaterhouseWednesday
with the elegiac & mysterious 'Mystic Wood' (1914-1917, unfinished, Queensland Art Gallery), one of the artist's last works.....
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Happy New Year from the PRS! As many of us say a thorough good riddance to the nightmare that was 2020, here are some images of Hope to hopefully guide us into 2021 from Burne-Jones (1896), Evelyn de Morgan (1887), G.F.Watts (1886) & Millais (The Blind Girl 1856 + double rainbow)
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For
#WomensHistoryMonth
we are spotlighting lesser known women artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Circle.
Have you heard of Eveleen Myers?
As a child she was inspired by Julia Margaret Cameron’s studio and the influence of Cameron’s Pre-Raphaelite style can be seen in her photos.
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When you wish they’d just add a bit of seasoning to their food- basil anyone?
#TastyThursday
#preraphaelite
#art
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Happy Birthday John Everett Millais!
#BornOnThisDay
in 1829. Perhaps the most eclectic & versatile of the Pre-Raphaelites with a long and varied career. We thank you for some of the cornerstone paintings of Pre-Raphaelitism (it was so hard to restrict the images to a meagre 3!)
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Perhaps one of the things especially noticeable in these quiet climes of lockdown is burgeoning birdsong, formerly muffled by traffic, now whistling, chirping & dare we say tweeting (!) away in full glory! Let's celebrate Morris's homage to our feathery friends this
#TopsyTuesday
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Highly talented poet & artist Christina Rossetti was born
#OTD
in 1830. Famous for the eerie & complex poem 'Goblin Market' & the elegiac 'Remember', she also wrote the words of 2 Christmas carols 'In the Bleak Midwinter' & 'Love Came Down at Christmas'
Happy Birthday Christina!
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An exciting new Pre-Raphaelite exhibition has recently opened at Milan's Palazzo Reale! 'Pre-Raphaelites: Love & Desire'/ 'Preraffaelliti. Amore e Desiderio' runs until the 6th October 2019. In collaboration with the Tate Gallery, this show features some PRB Masterpieces!
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A Pre-Raphaelite procession for the clocks leaping forward in the UK today, with Walter Crane’s ‘The Advent of Spring’, 1873.
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Take A Peek: it's all about opening charismatic caskets this
#BoxingDay
and
#TuesdayTale
with John William Waterhouse's 'Psyche Opening the Golden Box' (1904) and 'Pandora' (1896).
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For
#WomensHistoryMonth
our post today is dedicated to women in despair, homeless, and abandoned by those closest to them, the ‘Fallen Woman’ (of which there was no male equivalent) of Victorian society.
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Three Kisses for Dante Gabriel Rossetti on this birthday.
Have you found the 21 kisses in ‘The Rossettis’ exhibition at
@Tate
? Please do share you photos of them with us to celebrate.
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Goodbyes and grief for this
#FeelingsFriday
. ‘Farewell (Vale)’ Arthur Hacker, 1913. Two women turn away from each, their touch lingering, the passion flower discarded.
At a time when discrimination and prejudice was overwhelming, I read a Queer message in this painting. 1/2
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Happy New Year from all of us at the Pre-Raphaelite Society!
‘New Year’s Night’, 1911, Julius Johann Ferdinand Kronberg.
I can’t find any information about the figure, but she might be St Lucia - who is sometimes depicted with a sword. 1/2
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For a special
#MedievalMonday
is a sneak preview of the brilliant ‘The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story’ exhibition
@TullieCarlisle
curated by Natalie Rigby. It’s just opened and we’d definitely recommend a visit to Cumbria to see it.
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Unrequited Love: Elaine who fell in love with Launcelot in Arthurian Legend. Here depicted by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale as an illustration to accompany Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’ (1913), Emma Sandys (1862-65) and the third by Mary Evelina Kindon, for
#SisterhoodSunday
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Happy Birthday William Morris!
To celebrate are three of his incredible sketches for stained glass windows. A true polymath, he was a poet, philosopher, designer of everything for the home, conservationist, artist and socialist activist among his many other passions.
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Solstice Sorcery: the enchanting 'Midsummer Eve' (1908) by Robert Edward Hughes for this week's
#WednesdayWonder
and wishing everyone a magical Midsummer! 💫
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The triumphant ‘Victorian Radicals’ exhibition heralds the reopening of
@BM_AG
, and what a return! Opening this Saturday, we are sharing some sneak peaks today to whet your appetite.
#VictorianRadicals
For more information, do listen to our latest
@PreRaphPodcast
episode.
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Sublime Sketch: sensitive studies by Waterhouse for this
#StudySaturday
. Find out more about intriguing sketchwork found in Waterhouse's own vols of poetry by Shelley & Tennyson in
@elebonacini
's superb essay featured in the Summer issue of our journal, the PRS Review- out soon!
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Roses from Rossetti and Alexa Wilding for a
#ScentedSunday
.
These paintings are an Aesthetic Movement dream, a meditation on beauty, representing the importance of beauty above all else in art.
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Solace from a Spaniel: canine comfort for this week's
#MondayMood
with 'The Long Engagement' (1854-9
@BMAGimages
) and 'A Passing Cloud' (1908, private collection) by Arthur Hughes.
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Ambition is the emotion today, a woman establishing her place as a professional artist against the odds
#FeelingsFriday
. Her confident gaze dares us to challenge her talent.
American artist Elisabeth Nourse (1859–1938) created this self portrait in 1892. 1/2
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Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, aunties, godmothers, stepmothers, cat moms, and all the other maternal figures in the UK today. We hope you are celebrated.
As it’s also
#SisterhoodSunday
I’m sharing three artworks of motherhood by three female artists.
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Plum purple, grass green, burnt orange & cherry red glow in G.F. Watts's portrait of Jane 'Jeanie' Elizabeth Hughes (1858 Wightwick Manor), Britain's 1st female civil servant, philanthropist & co-founder of the Metropolitan Assoc. for Befriending Young Servants
#WattsOnWednesday
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Rossetti's self-isolating stunners are often shown in luscious but claustrophobic spaces with mirrored glimpses of the outside world or a caged bird echoing their own confinement
Lady Lilith (1866-73 Delaware Art Mus)
Veronica Veronese (1872 Legion of Honor Mus)
#GabrielGiovedi
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Serpentine Seduction: the temptation is in the tresses with 'Eve' by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer (1896) for this week's
#WednesdayWonder
🐍
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Day 3 of 'The Pre-Raphaelite Week features 2 for the price of 1!
John William Waterhouse, 'I Am Half-Sick of Shadows' 1915 (Art Gallery of Ontario)
&
William Holman Hunt, 'The Lady of Shalott' 1890-1905 (Wadsworth Atheneum)
#WaterhouseWednesdays
#HolmanHumpDay
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Arts & Crafts tour de force Phoebe Anna Traquair was born
#OTD
1852
Painter, embroiderer, illuminator, enamellist & bookbinder, the pinnacle of her oeuvre is arguably the sublime mural scheme @ St Mary's Catholic Apostolic Church's, sometimes dubbed 'Edinburgh's Sistine Chapel'
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Happy Birthday to the amazing artistic force that was Evelyn de Morgan, born
#OTD
in 1855. Showing 'Flora' (1894), 'The Love Potion' (1903) and 'The Storm Spirits' (c.1900) for this week's
#WednesdayWonder
@DeMorganF
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The elixirs of amour, love potions and potions to learn the destiny of departing lovers, for this
#TastyThursday
.
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Tree Trunks, Textures & Tendresse: 'The Long Engagement' by Arthur Hughes (1854-9
@BMAGimages
): mossy bark, Amy's golden tresses, her plush velvet cape, shimmering satin of her gown and the silken head of the adoring spaniel's fur surely deserve to be this week's
#WednesdayWonder
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Artist Simeon Solomon's restored grave at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, North London is now complemented by an attractive and well-worded information board! At one time Edward Burne-Jones described Simeon as "the greatest artist of us all" .... (Part 1/3)
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Happy Birthday to artist and designer Edward Burne-Jones born in Birmingham
#OnThisDay
in 1833! 🎂
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Happy Birthday to marvellous & magical Evelyn de Morgan (nee Pickering) born
#OTD
in 1855
Her mythical, spiritual, allegorical paintings are simply out of this world. An amazing draughtswoman & "pioneering professional female artist" (De Morgan Fdn)
@DeMorganF
#SisterhoodSunday
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The rose theme continues for this week and on
#WaterhouseWednesday
with the poignant 'The Soul of the Rose' (1908, private collection), a painting full of beauty, yearning & the senses...
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Has it been a long week? Celebrating the end of it with a fabulous flop with finesse courtesy of Ramon Casas i Carbó's 'After the Ball' (1895, Museu de Montserrat, Catalonia). Happy weekend everyone!
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Happy Friendship Day with Marie Spartali Stillman depicting her friend Jane Morris’ home, Kelmscott Manor, where she spent lots of time,
#SisterhoodSunday
.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born
#OTD
this 1828.
Herewith a selection of paintings throughout the stages & styles of his career.
'Self-Portrait' (1847 NPG)
'The Girlhood of Mary Virgin' (1849 Tate)
'The Tune of the 7 Towers '(1857 Tate)
'Joan of Arc' (1882 Fitzwilliam Museum)
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On this day in 1959, Disney released ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in the cinemas. So for this
#SoundofSaturday
, imagine Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score - used in the film and taken from his ‘Sleeping Beauty’ ballet - while looking at these Pre-Raph stunners sleeping.
Post by
@HannahRSquire
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English embroiderer, muse, model and icon of mature pre-Raphaelitism (Rossettism!) Jane Morris died
#OTD
in 1914
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Deep in the heart of an autumnal forest 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (1893, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt) is weaving her spell & ensnaring knights, kings, princes & pale warriors. Beware this Keatsian femme fatale despite her winsomeness & the heart she wears on her sleeve....
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Snowdrops, daffodils and hyacinths are in bloom in the south of England at the moment and we are looking forward to Spring with Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale’s ‘In the Springtime’, 1901, watercolour
#SisterhoodSunday
. We can’t wait till these beautiful bluebells make an appearance.
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Supremely talented & radical artist Evelyn de Morgan was born
#OTD
in 1855. Her arresting paintings are imbued with a rich spiritual, mythological & allegorical symbolism.
Evelyn & ceramicist husband William de Morgan were involved in Spiritualism, Suffrage & Pacifism
@DeMorganF
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Today’s
#FeelingsFriday
is one of excitement and gratitude at three brilliant Pre-Raphaelite exhibitions that are currently on show.
We are sharing three artworks, one from each exhibition. For more details see comments below.
@Tate
@LeightonHouse_
@DeMorganF
@TullieCarlisle
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'A Christmas Carol' by D.G.Rossetti (1867, private collection) for this week's
#WednesdayWonder
. A maiden in resplendent eastern dress of crimson with a gold thread pattern worked throughout, plays on a stringed instrument whilst singing “Hodie Jesu Christus natus est Hallelujah”
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Washing dishes in consummate aesthetic fashion.
'Blue & White' (1896,
@LeverArtGallery
) by Louise Jopling for this week's
#SisterhoodSunday
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A will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus, a 'foolish fire that hurteth not', a ghostly light that misleads travellers and is thought to be used by fairies, ghosts and spirits, is our theme for this
#MondayMood
.
Post by
@HannahRSquire
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Kate Greenway’s illustrations for this
#StudySaturday
.
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was an artist and writer. At 12 she enrolled at the Finsbury School of Art, followed by the National Art Training School in South Kensington from 1865, and attended the Slade School.
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Stoic Sword or Stealthy Seduction? The wonderfully over-the-top 'Temptation of Sir Percival' (c.1894, Leeds Museums & Galleries) by Arthur Hacker for this week's
#TuesdayTale
.
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For
#StudySaturday
are drawings by Edward Burne-Jones from the 1890s when he used gold point on purple prepared paper.
Metalpoint drawing, using silver or gold, was popular in the late 19th century and inspired by Renaissance techniques.
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Cherubim & Seraphim: a seasonal selection of musical angels by Edward Burne-Jones for this week's
#MondayMood
and this year's Christmas Day. Wishing everyone a peaceful and restful holiday from the PRS 😇
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Today we celebrate Brigid’s Feast Day, Imbolc.
Saint Brigid of Kildare(c. 451 – 525) is one of three patron saints of Ireland. She was an abbess who founded the important abbey of Kildare, where a sacred fire was kept continuously lit for centuries in her honour. …
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Happy birthday to sculptor, artist, model and muse, Maria Zambaco, (29 April 1843, London – 14 July 1914, Paris), born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti.
She studied art the Slade School under Alphonse Legros and with Auguste Rodin in Paris, and worked as a sculptor.
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Today's
#WaterhouseWednesday
and
#HolmanHumpDay
offerings feature the artists' respective & beautiful pictorial interpretations of Keats's poem 'Isabella, Or the Pot of Basil' adapted from a story in Boccaccio's 'Decameron' (1868, Laing Art Gallery & 1907, The Hopkins Collection)
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Spells & Serpents: one of the most bewitching of all Pre-Raphaelite paintings: Burne-Jones's 'The Beguiling of Merlin' (1872-77,
@LeverArtGallery
) for this week's
#MagicMonday
. Nimue skips away with the Book of Enchantment whilst Merlin sinks, trapped, in the hawthorn bush....
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Jopling & Japonisme: 3 paintings by Louise Jopling (née Goode, later Romer, then Rowe) including a self-portrait. A close friend of Millais, he painted her looking in this exquisite black dress in 1879. Jopling was a long-term supporter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage.
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