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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

Knights in Shining Armour: in memoriam Edmund Blair Leighton 2

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His paintings are set in mediaeval times, with tales of chivalry, or in ‘Regency’ times, with tricorn hats and jovial men selling ribbons door-to-door.

September 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Knights in Shining Armour: in memoriam Edmund Blair Leighton 1

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Often considered a Pre-Raphaelite, with common themes, he was an academic outsider whose photo-real paintings are finely crafted fantasies.

August 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Altogether Now: 8 Ford Madox Brown, Work, 1863

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Crammed into this crowded street scene in one of London’s leafy suburbs is a detailed account of the breadth and depth of contemporary Victorian society.

March 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Thomas Seddon: bicentenary of a Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter

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In just a few years of painting, he made two of the major Pre-Raphaelite landscapes, but died of dysentery in Cairo at the age of only 35.

August 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: John Brett’s breathtaking view of Florence

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Painted entirely in front of the motif, and in fine detail, Brett followed Ruskin’s rules for landscape paintings, but this was rejected by the Royal Academy.

August 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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

Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 2 The hard road to success

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After painting his masterpiece ‘The Last of England’, he returned to landscapes made with great attention to detail, in front of the motif. And they sold.

April 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 1 An uncertain start

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After training in Belgium, he painted a series of narrative works, then a finely detailed landscape of a view over London. Success eluded him.

April 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam: George Dunlop Leslie, one of the St John’s Wood Clique

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He specialised in ‘light genre’ paintings, not-to-serious domestic scenes, painted in fine detail, and was praised by Ruskin.

February 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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