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"Cupid's Hunting Fields," Edward Burne-Jones, 1880.
Burne-Jones (1883-98) started off as a Pre-Raphaelite, very much under the sway of founder Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but soon developed his own style, and by the 1870s had been hailed as a guiding star of the new Aesthetic movement, although his feet were planted in both camps. (There was a lot of overlap!)
He worked with designer William Morris, designing tiles, jewelry, mosaics, and tapestries, among other things, and became such an artistic powerhouse that he was made a Baronet...something that revolted Morris, a socialist, as well as Mrs. Burne-Jones, herself a socialist as well. Only Burne-Jones' son, who would inherit the title, seemed excited by it.
This is one of several works on the same theme of a blindfolded Cupid firing his arrows into the world, creating love unexpectedly and randomly. It's on a wood panel, with a relief built up in gesso, and painted over with oils and gold paint. Very impressive!
From the Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington.
#Art #EdwardBurneJones #PreRaphaelites #AestheticMovement #Cupid #Gold
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"Mrs. Eaton," Dante Gabriel Rossetti, c. 1863-5.
Rossetti (1828-82) was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and was busy as a poet, painter, illustrator, muralist, and translator. He hardly requires introduction; as a painter, he was hugely influential and much copied, even today, and has been the subject of biographies and even a TV series, "Desperate Romantics." He wasn't always the nicest guy, but he was fascinating and talented.
Fanny Eaton (1835-1924) was a mixed-race domestic worker, born in Jamaica, who was a favorite model of Rossetti and his friends. Married and with a family, she seems to have avoided any tawdry entanglements with the Brotherhood, who led rather steamy lives. Why she took up modeling and what she thought of the work that used her is unknown; she left no letters or diaries, but it is thought she modeled simply for the money.
The last known painting of her is from 1867; she seems to have stopped modeling after that, and lived out her life afterwards as a seamstress and cook.
From the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA.
#Art #DanteGabrielRossetti #PreRaphaelites #FannyEaton #Portrait #PortraitMonday #WomenInArt
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"The Rose Bower," Edward Burne-Jones, 1890.
Burne-Jones (1833-98) was a great British painter as well as being a designer of tiles, jewelry, mosaics, and stained-glass windows. Although heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, he was considered a star of the Aesthetic movement as well, and modern fans regard him as having a foot in both camps.
Aestheticism believed that art should be simply an object of beauty, rather than preaching a lesson or telling a story. Pre-Raphaelites were all about bringing back intense detail and colors that existed in Renaissance art, which the Aesthetes loved, but they could be preachy and didactic in their art. (See Hunt's painting "The Awakening Conscience" which today is seen as almost comical.) Burne-Jones and his friend William Morris believed in creating beautiful objects, but also in bringing beauty to everyday items like wallpaper and woodwork.
This is part of a series called "The Legend of Briar Rose" which we know as Sleeping Beauty. Here we have the princess sleeping with her attendants in her castle...while the roses continue to creep in. It's one of a number of paintings depicting the inhabitants of the castle asleep while the roses grow around them.
From Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK.
#Art #PreRaphaelites #EdwardBurneJones #SleepingBeauty #WomenInArt
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“With stillness that is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;”
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"#February in the Isle of Wight," by John Brett, 1866--a little bit of mist pooling in the valley, but full of promise of the coming spring. Looking forward to that! https://victorianweb.org/painting/brett/drawings/4.html #painting #PreRaphaelites
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The artist Arthur Hughes was born #OnThisDay 1832. One of his paintings was of "A Music Party" (1862-4)— a popular subject in those days. William Michael Rossetti enjoyed its "dreamy charm" #paintings #PreRaphaelites
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"The Mandolin," James Smetham, 1866.
Smetham (1821-1889) was a painter of the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic schools, and very much a follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose influence can be seen here. This is widely regarded as his masterwork, but even so, many feel that Rossetti may have done part of it. It does include props that Rossetti used, including the mandolin and the swansdown scarf, but exactly how much of a hand he had in this is unknown.
Smetham started out as a portrait painter, but like many of the era, his portrait career was derailed by the advent of photography. He later moved on to landscapes, religious, mythical, literary, and historical paintings, some of which were regarded as strange or visionary in their time. He also did literally thousands of miniatures, the size of postage stamps, in his journals.
He was also a teacher, essayist, art critic, and poet; his letters are noted for being a font of information about his fellow Pre-Raphaelites, John Ruskin, and others. Sadly, he had serious mental health issues that can be seen in his writings and sometimes his art. After a serious breakdown, his last years were spent in seclusion, away from the world.
From a private collection.
#Art #JamesSmetham #PreRaphaelites #WomenInArt #DanteGabrielRossetti
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"Pleasant Dreams," Emma Sandys, 1876.
Sandys (1841-1877) was a minor member of the Pre-Raphaelites, and as such is often overlooked. Her brother Frederick, also a painter, was a more prominent member, but unlike him she never courted controversy as he did, early on with some caricature engravings.
Emma's work was mostly portraits of children and young women, usually in period dress, often with floral backgrounds. She rarely identifies the sitter; she will instead frequently cast them as characters from mythology, history, or a Shakespeare play.
Here we have an unidentified woman sitting with her eyes closed, but I doubt she's asleep. She clutches a rolled paper to herself; one can guess it's a letter from her beloved. So what may seem like sleep is instead she's daydreaming of their future together. Behind her head is some holly, typically representing protection and good fortune; I don't know what the pink flowers may be.
Sandys died young, of pulmonary issues, and of course many of her paintings were credited to her brother. Only in the last few decades is she getting her due.
From the University of Dundee Fine Arts Collection.
#Art #PreRaphaelites #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #EmmaSandys #PortraitMonday
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Keir Starmer removed the Whips of four MPs for alleged persistent 'breaches of party discipline'. This cartoon features Starmer and the four MPs in a homage/parody of John Tenniel's original illustrations for the book Alice in Wonderland.
#KeirStarmer #Corbyn #LabourParty #Politics #UKnews #Labour #rachelreeves #Preraphaelites #Painting #MastoArt #cartoon #aliceinwonderland #johntenniel #DisabilityRights #WelfareCuts #MPsSuspended
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Chancellor of exchequer Rachel Reeves as in the title role of William Holman Hunt's 'The Scapegoat'. #KeirStarmer #Corbyn #LabourParty #Politics #UKnews #Labour #rachelreeves #Preraphaelites #Painting #MastoArt #cartoon
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Rossetti, Day Dream--unfinished & finished versions. Portrait of Jane Morris. 1855.#FediArt #Preraphaelites #Painting
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Melody, Kate Elizabeth Bunce, 1895. Bunce's use of patterning and embellishment is so fascinating. Seen here on every surface, including that necklace. #MastoArt #Inspiration #Preraphaelites
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Storm Spirits, Evelyn De Morgan, 1900 This is #Orkney weather made glam. Right now we are at the centre of the painting--a moment of calm. Lightning has snakes in her hair; mythologies world wide have linked the snake with lighting or a 'serpent of light" .#Preraphaelites #WomenArtists #FediArt
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A Study, in March
John William Inchbold (1830–1888)
Ashmolean Museum, OxfordIt is generally agreed that this was the painting exhibited as 'A Study, in March' at the Royal Academy, London in 1855 and inspired by lines from William Wordsworth's 'Excursion', book 1:
“I returned,
And took my rounds along this road again
Ere on its sunny bank the primrose flower
Peeped forth, to give an earnest of the Spring.” -
'Circe Invidiosa' by John William Waterhouse (1892)
#art #arts #artwork #painting #paintings #Myth #myths #mythology #greece #greek #ancientgreece #illustration #realism #arthistory #preraphaelite #preraphaelites #artnet
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The artworks he was reminded of were Ophelia by John Everett Millais because of the lush flowers and plants and Pandora by John William Waterhouse because of the dress. We tried out some poses inspired by some of Waterhouse's paintings and chose one where I'm looking wistfully at the sky. Here is a series of other contenders:
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2/3#operaSinger #photoshoot #Darmstadt #preRaphaelites #fasion #MaxAzria
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Great visit to the Victorian Radicals Exhibition today.
https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/victorian-radicals
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New book in our collection: this essay collection on #WalterPater & the Beginnings of #EnglishStudies analyses Pater's views on Montaigne, #Shakespeare, the #RomanticPoets, #Morris & #Rossetti & more!
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1851642005
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Eye Candy for Valentine’s Day: Joseph Noel Paton’s Hesperus. For links to large images & more info, see my Lines and Colors post: http://linesandcolors.com/2024/02/14/eye-candy-for-valentines-day-joseph-noel-patons-hesperus/ #art #victorianart #preraphaelites #josephnoelpaton #scottishart #19thcenturyart #loversinart #valentinesart
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Some of famed pre-Raphaelite John Willams Waterhouse’s less ogled works are magnetic gems on canvas. I’ll never think of better illustrative work in any school of British painting then, either.
Fellow knew how to paint women. All sizes and eras. And color, mythologies, detail and mysticism. I’d stand riveted in front of an elusive “the real thing” to the point of embarrassment on a school trip 🇬🇧 at 13 and I still do. Grin.
#art #PreRaphaelites #johnwilliamswaterhouse #destiny
Destiny
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Elegantly draped figures by Victorian painter Albert Joseph Moore. For more images, links & info, see my Lines and Colors post: http://linesandcolors.com/2024/01/31/albert-joseph-moore/ #art #painting #albertjosephmoore #englishpainting #victorianpainting #19thcenturyart #preraphaelites
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"Fanny Eaton," Joanna Boyce Wells, 1861.
Joanna Boyce Wells (1831-1861) was a member of the Pre-Raphaelites and praised by John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but current critics point out the influence of Old Masters and Romantic styles in her work, saying she went her own way.
Fanny Eaton (1835-1924) was a biracial Jamaican immigrant to England who was a popular model for the Pre-Raphaelites; this portrait was a study by Wells in preparation for a larger canvas about Queen Zenobia, but Wells died in childbirth before the project could begin. Eaton never profited much from her modeling and lived a working-class life.
From the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.
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Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Gossip. For more detail, links & info, see my Lines and Colors post: http://linesandcolors.com/ #art #painting #victorianpainting #waterhouse #johnwilliamwaterhouse #preraphaelites #genrepainting #19thcenturyart #britishpainting
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s The Scapegoat. For links to large image & more info, see my Lines and Colors post: http://linesandcolors.com/2023/10/29/eye-candy-for-today-holman-hunts-the-scapegoat/ #art #painting #victorianpainting #preraphaelites #holmanunt #williamholmanhunt #britishpainting #19thcenturyart
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"The White Owl," William James Webbe, 1856.
Owls are a particular favorite of mine, and this barn owl seems content with its haul for the night...although I fear the closed eyes may also indicate this was painted using a taxidermy model. Webbe was a Pre-Raphaelite, one of the lesser-known ones, but he was noted for his rustic and religious works...and this barn owl, sitting on a rafter, is certainly rustic.
From a private collection.
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This pleased me immensely: “O Uommibatto” How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uommibatto-how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat #wombats #PreRaphaelites #Rossetti
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portrait of Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Siddal (herself an #artist) by #Rossetti, her husband, who she had a sometimes tempestuous relationship with, at the #AshmoleanMuseum
#PreRaphaelites exhibition in #Oxford. Apparently when she died Rossetti put some poems he'd written in her grave, and then, when his friends suggested the poems were actually quite good, arranged to have them dug them again.
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Saw this beautiful #portrait, The Day Dream, by Dante Gabriel #Rossetti, today at the #AshmoleanMuseum #PreRaphaelites exhibition (Sunday is the last day.) The model was Jane Morris. Born Jane Burden, an #Oxford stableman's daughter, she met Rossetti and William Morris on the same night, at the theatre. Married William, but later became Rossetti's lover.
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