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 = ”;
A new drama about the Pre-Raphaelties for BBC Two (article link). Hopefully it will make its way across the pond. Fingers crossed! Via BBC News: “The BBC says the six-part series will show the men striving to find fame, fortune and “quite a bit of sex along the way”. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood formed in 1848 [...]
Sue Tilley appears in Lucian Freud’s painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (a painting that recently sold for $33.6 million). Obviously, this site is devoted to artist’s models who lived mainly in the Victorian era. But Tilley gives unique insight into the experience of modeling, having posed for long periods for many months. The Art & Architecture [...]
The beauty of an Oxford “stunner” will be celebrated for all time – following the unveiling of a plaque in her honour. The blue plaque marks the site of the former slum where Jane Burden was born in 1839. Jane, wife of the artist, poet and designer William Morris, became the 19th century equivalent of [...]
Millais’ lurid colours and trite rhetoric have been despised by critics for years. But underneath all that, says Jonathan Jones, lies a startling emotional truth “The Blind Girl is a mawkish, manipulative masterpiece. Seeing it, and others, in Tate Britain’s revelatory exhibition of Millais gave me a shock: I’ve discovered that I like the pre-Raphaelites. [...]
I love this new article in the Telegraph, no doubt coinciding with the upcoming Millais exhibit. Read ten behind-the-scenes facts about one of Millais’ most famous works. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpreraphaelitesisterhood.com%2F%3Fp%3D54′; addthis_title = ‘Ten+Things+You+Never+Knew+About+Ophelia’; addthis_pub = ”;
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