Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ painting The Blind Girl (1854–56) shows two girls sitting in a bright green meadow with a double rainbow in the background. While the younger girl stares ...

The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites were shockers in their day, unnerving prudish Victorians with images of powerful, full-lipped muscular women swathed in diaphanous, alluring fabrics. These days, ...

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) ...

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, ...

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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The handful of British artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were “a radical yet backward-looking” bunch, said Jeffry Cudlin in the Washington City Paper. The movement’s major ...

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, ...

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 English don’t really like art,” a celebrated (English) abstract sculptor told me, some time ago. “We like literature and nature—gardens and landscape. That’s why we admire all those artists who go ...

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 ...