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Behind the building, on the opposite side of the Thames, stands Thomas Brock’s bronze statue of John Everett Millais, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the first modern British ...

The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...

Each yearned to reform the conservative British art establishment, which they felt inhibited progressive contemporary artists. The artists had attended classes at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools ...

In the 1850s, a group of British painters known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood became famous for their lavishly detailed pictures, full of brilliant colors, medieval settings and women with lush, ...

Andy Grundberg's review of the National Gallery of Art's "Pre-Raphaelite Lens" exhibition ["A brotherhood that inspired a blurred vision," Arts & Style, Nov. 7] was the type of art review that drives ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A brotherhood of English 19th-century artists enamoured with the past became inspired by art from the early Renaissance and ...

Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...

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There she is in Order of the Release, 1853 (pictured right), posing as the wife of an imprisoned Jacobite Highlander. I like to imagine this brilliant composition as a reflection of her marriage.

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) ...