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Pre-Raphaelite

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

The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood: an index of its members

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A table of contents and index to all the women Pre-Raphaelite painters covered in this series. Complete with some of their finest work.

December 3, 2020 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

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Muses and Models 1

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Great Pre-Raphaelite women didn’t stand behind their partners, but in front of them, as their muses and models. Masterpieces with two stories to tell.

November 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Sisters 2

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Five more forgotten women artists with Pre-Raphaelite style, including the prolific and brilliant Kate Bunce, whose work should be much better-known.

November 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Sisters 1

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Paintings by Barbara Bodichon, Anna Howitt (Watts), Rosa Brett, Anna Blunden, Joanna Boyce (Wells), and Lizzie Siddal.

November 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Marie Spartali Stillman 2: The Enchanted Garden

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Painstaking watercolour technique using transparent layers like glazes gives marvellous results in the Renaissance narratives.

November 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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