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) ...

'Direct and serious and heartfelt': The Pre-Raphaelite movement -- The first generation: 1848-65. Anna Mary Howitt. Joanna Boyce. Rosa Brett. Anna Blunden. Elizabeth Siddal -- The second generation: ...

There she is in Order of the Release, 1853 (pictured right), posing as the wife of an imprisoned Jacobite Highlander. I like to imagine this brilliant composition as a reflection of her marriage.

46 x 37 cm. (18.1 x 14.6 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

The Pre-Raphaelites created some of the most romantic, decorative, and symbolic artworks in British art history. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) was one of the movement’s founders. Both a painter ...

A vision realized : pre-Raphaelitism in the Bancroft collection / Stephen Wildman -- Samuel Bancroft : collector of the pre-Raphaelites / Margaretta S. Frederick -- Charles Fairfax Murray : keeper of ...

Dante Gabriel Rosetti was a pre-Raphaelite painter known for his portraiture and figure paintings. One model frequently seen in his works was Elizabeth Siddal. She was one of the most notable models ...

English painter John William Waterhouse loved to read Lord Alfred Tennyson. He loved the Victorian poet’s writing so much, in fact, that he allegedly filled every blank page of his copy of Tennyson’s ...

Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...

The English don’t really like art,” a celebrated (English) abstract sculptor told me, some time ago. “We like literature and nature—gardens and landscape. That’s why we admire all those artists who go ...