His early paintings were narrative and highly original. From the 1870s they changed, becoming more Aesthetic.
Aestheticism
His later paintings became weaker in narrative to the point where some seemed almost trite. What was he up to?
His later paintings, after 1858, are quite different from those he made when a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. How?
Several Pre-Raphaelites painted this character from a Shakespeare comedy, but as a symbol of despondent isolation. Why?
Taught by Watts, a friend of Rossetti and Frederic, Lord Leighton, his paintings were popular, successful, and well known. Until the early 20th century.
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