May 2012

In the News: Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Mural, The Cult of Beauty

May 25, 2012 by Stephanie Chatfield

Liverpool Daily Post: INTERVIEW: Curator Pamela Gerrish Nunn on the forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale Click Liverpool: Last of the Pre-Raphaelites: More than 30 works by popular painter, designer and illustrator Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872 – 1945) have been brought together in the first major exhibition of her extraordinary output in 40 years. A Pre-Raphaelite Journey: Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, opening … Read more

Link Love: ‘Salutation of Beatrice’, Madox Brown’s grave, Elizabeth Siddal’s ‘True Love’

May 17, 2012May 15, 2012 by Stephanie Chatfield

Via Dinah Roe’s twitter (@preraphsrule): Audio. Peter Brown, Director of Victorian & British Impressionist Art, Christie’s, discusses Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Salutation of Beatrice. Islington Tribune: Ford Madox Brown relative joins campaign to clean up Pre-Raphaelite artist’s grave Beautiful, moving, haunting. Valerie Meachum reads Elizabeth Siddal’s poem ‘True Love’. (If you are reading this through … Read more

Timelessness of the Pre-Raphaelites captured in evocative image

May 15, 2012 by Stephanie Chatfield

Delaware Art Museum has posted this image on their Facebook page, and I am grateful that they allowed me to share it here as well. Here we see museum staff in the Pre-Raphaelite gallery, circa 1938:

Dr. Jan Marsh to deliver lecture on Pre-Raphaelite women at the Isle of Wight

May 9, 2012 by Stephanie Chatfield

Oh, the Isle of Wight! What a beautiful place steeped in history. Definitely on my list of places that I long to visit. Dr. Jan Marsh will be delivering a lecture on Pre-Raphaelite Women and the Isel of Wight May 26, 2012 at Dimbola Lodge. What a fitting place, as Dimbola Lodge is the home … Read more