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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: 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 William Blake Richmond, an Aesthetic

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Named after the artist and poet, he was precious, and went on to be a very successful portraitist. Here some of his narrative and other works.

February 11, 2021 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

The critic as patron: John Brett’s Pre-Raphaelite landscapes

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How one critic established the success of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, but set its landscape painters an impossible challenge.

June 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

… or Pre-Raphaelite

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Why did the Pre-Raphaelites want to return to the ‘purity’ of painting before Raphael? Did they succeed?

April 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Calling the Tune: patrons, donors and dealers in paintings 2

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The vital relationship between painter and patron, donor, dealer and others. Shown in examples from Rubens, Velázquez, Brett, Renoir and Bonnard.

March 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Ford Madox Brown constrained by Pre-Raphaelite ideals

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His four best paintings viewed in their historical context, and consideration of the constraints that he painted under. What if?

January 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

John Ruskin, Godfather to the Pre-Raphaelites, was born 200 years ago today

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He became the most influential critic of painting in Britain, providing the Pre-Raphaelites with strong support. But that proved capricious, and eventually destructive to landscape painting.

February 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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