To continue the Keats theme, let’s look at the first painting Millais painted as a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Lorenzo and Isabella is based on Keats’ poem Isabella, or, the Pot of Basil. I’ve touched on the poem briefly in this post about William Holman Hunt’s painting of the same subject. Basically, Isabella and [...]
After the previous posts about repeated use of objects in Pre-Raphaelite art (Rossetti and His Baubles and Hair Adornment in Rossetti Paintings), I have taken to scouring images for props used repeatedly. One of which is this silver ornament or pillar I’ve seen in both The Bridesmaid and Mariana by Sir John Everett Millais: In [...]
Painted by Sir John Everett Millais, The Woodsman’s Daughter is based on a poem by Coventry Patmore. The following lines from Patmore’s poem were displayed with the painting when first exhibited at the Royal Academy: She went merely to think she help’d; And, whilst he hack’d and saw’d, The rich Squire’s son, a young boy [...]
How thrilling! I’ve just read this article describing a lost Millais portrait of his wife Effie–found in a dusty attic, no less! Article Link: Lost Portrait Recalls Love Affair addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpreraphaelitesisterhood.com%2F%3Fp%3D497′; addthis_title = ‘Forgotten+Millais+Painting+Discovered’; addthis_pub = ”;
Kate Dickens Perugini, daughter of Charles Dickens, served as the model for The Black Brunswicker (painted by Millais). The Lady Lever Art Gallery has an extended study of this painting online. Kate, one of the ten children of Dickens, married Pre-Raphaelite artist Charles Allston Collins. Collins brother, Wilkie Collins, was the author of The Moonstone [...]
I choose to start this week off with a beauty both bold and pure. Sophie Gray painted by Sir John Everett Millais in 1857. I love this painting, although I’m certain that most of my readers know by now that Ophelia is my favorite Millais work. A few of the Pre-Raphaelites specialized in intense, close [...]
Annie Miller, painted by Millais. Millais painted her hair darker than William Holman Hunt or Dante Gabriel Rossetti did. One facet of Pre-Raphaelite art that I find interesting is that several artists would use the same models time and time again, each painting her differently. Which raises the question: did they portray women how they [...]
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