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The pre-Raphaelites

February 2024

  • Detail from La Donna Della Finestra [The Lady of Pity], 1881 Unfinished oil painting Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Victorian Radicals review – a riveting rethink for the trippy, cosplaying pre-Raphaelites

    These Victorian painters are often framed as a guilty pleasure. But, as this intriguing exhibition makes clear, there is actually very little to feel guilty about

December 2023

  • Shield your eyes … aniline fringed chromolithographed 19th-century New Year card.

    How a European colour revolution brought us the humble Christmas card

  • A section of Sibylla Palmifera by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which was finally finished in 1870.

    ‘Constant diarrhoea’ and other excuses: Rossetti’s five years of apologies for unfinished art revealed

April 2023

  • Photos by Richard Ivey ©. Steve McQueen, Grenfell, 2019 (still)

    Steve McQueen: Grenfell; The Rossettis – review

  • Ophelia, by John Everett Millais

    Ophelia resurfaces: pre-Raphaelite muse is recognised as a skilled artist

March 2022

  • View of Kelmscott Manor

    William Morris’s ‘heaven on earth’ Oxfordshire home restored to former glory

    After a £6m renovation project, the pioneering designer’s farmhouse is reopening to the public

February 2022

  • A detail from Whistler’s Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1862, – a portrait of Joanna Hiffernan.

    Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan – raw, boozy, sexual slices of real life and love

    This life-affirming show tracks a revolutionary moment in art, as the US artist and his young Irish lover blow apart the claustrophobia of Victorian painting

December 2021

  • Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) English poet, in a chalk drawing by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866.

    Brief letters
    Christina Rossetti deserves to be No 1

    Brief letters: Christmas carols | Delivery apps v the milkman | The joy of kissing | Garden wordsearch

September 2021

  • Siddal modelled for the portrait Beata Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

    Muse and model or painter-poet? Elizabeth Siddal given fresh portrait

    RashDash’s new theatre production honours the pre-Raphaelite by focusing on her own art and poetry – and shifting from tragedy into comedy

June 2021

  • Samson Kambalu in his short film Moses (Burning Bush), 2015.

    Samson Kambalu: New Liberia; Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours – review

    Kambalu, a Malawian fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, tears a strip off Britain’s colonial legacy. And precision is all for the pre-Raphaelites

January 2021

  • Implacable and vengeful … Clytemnestra by John Collier.

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: a blood-tinged scene of merciless revenge

    With public art collections closed, we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Worcester City Museum’s Clytemnestra

August 2020

  • Evelyn De Morgan’s painting The Prisoner (1907-1908).

    The great British art quiz
    What does the peacock feather symbolise? The great British art quiz

    The De Morgan Collection sets today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the artworks in British museums closed due to Covid-19

April 2020

  • ArtActivistBarbie @BarbieReports at the Manchester Art Gallery

    'That's not art it's Victorian porn!' – how one small Barbie doll took on the art world

    She pops up in galleries, denouncing prestigious works of art as ‘pre-Raphaelite wet T-shirt competitions’. Now ArtActivistBarbie is taking her feminist message to social media

February 2020

  • Holm oak tree

    Country diary
    Country diary: forward into spring, back to pre-Raphaelite days

    Worcester Park, Sutton: Urban sprawl has engulfed the farm where Millais and Holman Hunt spent an idyllic summer

October 2019

  • 043 Marie Spartali Stillman by Ford Madox Brown Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, National Portrait Gallery, 2019

    Pre-Raphaelite Sisters review – the heroic women behind the frilly-shirted bro-fest

    Women supported the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, as lovers, helpers and models – but they were rewarded with paintings that depicted them as objects of fantasy
  • Spotted dick

    Brief letters
    Proof of the pudding is in spotted dick

    Brief letters: Oldest novels | Pre-Raphaelite female artists | Puddings and afters | Risky Brexit manoeuvre
  • Night and Sleep by Evelyn De Morgan.

    More than tragic muses: female pre-Raphaelite artists finally take flight

    After years of neglect, the female painters and makers of the pre-Raphaelite era are getting their first dedicated exhibition – and it’s enough to make any grandmaster look to his laurels

September 2019

  • Richard Brooks

    The pre-Raphaelite sisterhood is finally getting its due

    Richard Brooks
  • The Death of Breuze Sans Pitié, which has been in private collections since its creation, goes on display this week

    Lost Rossetti painting goes on display at British Museum

May 2019

  • The Eternal Feminine Graham Arnold

    Other lives
    Graham Arnold obituary

    Other lives: Painter who lived a ruralist lifestyle in an echo of the Pre-Raphaelite movement
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