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Painted Stories in Britain 17: The end of history

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Two last Pre-Raphaelite artists, Evelyn De Morgan and Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, brought narrative painting to a close in the twentieth century.

December 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 16: Open narrative and problem pictures

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In the latter half of the 19th century, a new narrative form developed, primarily among British painters: the open narrative, or problem picture.

December 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 15: Human panoramas

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Two artists painted panoramas full of miniature stories, which assembled into broad summaries of contemporary society: Frith and Ford Madox Brown.

December 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 14: British poetry and Arthurian legend

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Two new narrative themes that became distinctive in the mid-19th century were contemporary English poetry, and the legends of King Arthur.

November 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 13: Enter the Pre-Raphaelites

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Unwittingly, and outside their manifesto, the Pre-Raphaelite Brethren developed a new British narrative painting.

November 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 12: William Dyce

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A painter of superbly composed and crafted religious and other narrative, a key figure in art education, who enjoyed the support of Queen Victoria.

November 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 10: JMW Turner

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One of the greatest British narrative painters of the 19th century, a small selection of his best from Eris picking a golden apple in 1806 to the slaveship of 1840.

November 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 8: Shakespeare

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For 20 years, Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery tried to establish an English School of History Painting. Or was it just a ploy to make money from prints?

October 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 7: Benjamin West’s revolution fails

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How West failed in his aim of bringing a revolution to history painting by depicting ‘modern history’, and was repeatedly upstaged by others.

October 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting Everyday London – an introduction to a new series about the Camden Town Group

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Between 1910-14, avant garde painting in Britain came to the fore, with exhibitions of the Allied Artists Association, Fry’s Post-Impressionists, and this group of 16 painters.

December 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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