Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Joseph Jacobs. Author of (SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES.) This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...

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Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

Publication date from publisher's Web site. "Checklist of works exhibited in Washington": pages 246-249. "The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's ...

The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...

Pre-Raphaelite supermodel Elizabeth Siddal is overshadowed by two enduring stories. Catching cold while posing in the bath for Millais' painting of Ophelia, and her exhumation by husband Dante Gabriel ...

Henry Wallis, “Chatterton” (c. 1855–56), oil on canvas, 62.2 x 93.3 cm (24 1/2 x 36 3/4 in), Tate Gallery, London (all images courtesy the National Gallery of Art) In its first iteration in London, ...

It is difficult to think of the Pre-Raphaelites’ work as anything other than decorative and pretty, let alone avant-garde. Google it and you’ll come up with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s bored pale-faced ...

My mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The ...