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Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 3 Successful work

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Two major works in his later years: ‘Work’, showing a crowded street in Victorian London, and 12 large murals for Manchester Town Hall.

April 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Muses and Models 2

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The daughter of a Jamaican slave, William Morris’s wife, three Greek cousins known as the Three Graces – all muses and models for Pre-Raphaelites.

November 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Prime Minister’s Music Room, Perseus and Andromeda

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The story behind the commissioning of Edward Burne-Jones to paint his monumental series telling the story of Perseus and Andromeda.

May 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Not a Pre-Raphaelite History Painter: Ford Madox Brown 1861-90

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His most famous painting, ‘Work’, inspired by the ideas of Thomas Carlyle, and a possibly unique example of multiplex narrative after William Hogarth.

January 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Far from home: Paintings of Frances Hodgkins 2

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A member of the Seven & Five group, when it moved towards abstract art in 1934, she resigned to pursue her individual style.

January 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Far from home: Paintings of Frances Hodgkins 1

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Considered one of the leading British painters of the first half of the 20th century, she was an incessant traveller, and came from New Zealand.

January 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Myrrh in paintings: 2 Adoration and penitence

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Myrrh makes its appearance as one of the 3 gifts of the Magi, then as an attribute of Mary Magdalene. A history in paintings by Bosch and others.

December 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

King Arthur’s women: 2 Queen Guinevere

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She proves unfaithful to King Arthur, in her public affair with Sir Lancelot. But he may not have exactly been loyal to her either.

May 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Mother of the Muses: Mnemosyne

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She gets but a single line in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and has been painted only rarely, and then usually in a supporting role.

April 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite: Marie Spartali Stillman, 3 – from 1892

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Her obituary dwelled on grace and charm, dismissing her painting as a leisuretime activity. Here is the last part of her 60 year painting career.

September 24, 2016 General, Painting

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