Several Pre-Raphaelites painted this character from a Shakespeare comedy, but as a symbol of despondent isolation. Why?
Pre-Raphaelite
Taught by Watts, a friend of Rossetti and Frederic, Lord Leighton, his paintings were popular, successful, and well known. Until the early 20th century.
Towards the end of his career, he campaigned for students at the Royal Academy Schools to have proper life classes with nude models. And a nude got him into trouble.
You may know him for ‘Broken Vows’, a famous problem picture about unfaithfulness in marriage. Here are some more of his works.
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.
Her time in Florence brought maturity to her work. She then painted a series of major paintings, although you’d be pushed to find any in European collections.
Initially a favourite model, she became an accomplished and original painter in watercolours, whose works were seen across Europe and in the US.
Oil sketches and studies became accepted as works of art. But not all Impressionist paintings have survived as well as they should.
Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (Musée d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
Unconventional treatments of popular stories, spiritual pain during the First World War, a touch of Blake, and woman murdering woman. Powerful paintings.
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