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The Singer
Artist: Arthur Hughes (English, 1832–1915)
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil on panel
Collection: Tate Britain / National Gallery of British Art, London, United Kingdom
The Soul of the Rose
Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)
Date: 1908
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Description
The Soul of the Rose was painted when Waterhouse was in his creative maturity; he was an artist established with patrons and public alike, who pursued his unique vision whilst adapting to modern precepts regarding style. Archetypally romantic, it is nevertheless executed with fluidity and verve, and leaves the crystalline imagery of the past century behind.
Waterhouse's title is loosely derived from Chaucer's dream poem, Romaunt of the Rose, itself adapted from the 13th-century French romance: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris. The narrator embarks on a pilgrimage with the god of love, who leads him to a rose symbolizing perfect love. The poem had been treated by Waterhouse's early inspiration, Sir Edward-Burne Jones, in preparation for a tapestry. Burne-Jones depicts the rose personified as a young girl in an oil entitled The Heart of the Rose, (1889, Private collection; fig. 1). She embodies the beauty of the sentiment represented, and becomes a love object for the young poet.
The Haunted Manor
Artist: William Holman Hunt (English, 1827–1910)
Date: 1849
Medium: Oil paint on board
Collection: Tate Britain / National Gallery of British Art, London, United Kingdom
Description
Here we see golden light filter through trees, illuminating a stream cluttered with abandoned stones. The scene was painted on location in either Wimbledon Park in London, or near Hogsmil River in Ewell, Surrey. The artist was likely working side-by-side with fellow Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais. Both artists gave their landscapes a story by adding figures or, in this case, the ‘haunted manor’. Its windows reflect the evening sun as though they are ablaze. Hogsmil River also became the setting for Ophelia.
Queen Eleanor
Artist: Frederick Sandys (British, 1829-1904)
Date: 1858
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Museum Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Description
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (c.1122-1204), the wife of the English King Henry II, was reputed to have murdered his mistress Fair Rosamund and appears here with a poisoned cup and dagger. The red cord in her left hand is that which showed the way through the maze to Rosamund's bower.
The Gilded Apple
Artist: Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (British, 1872-1945)
Date: 1899
Medium: Watercolour over pencil
Collection: Private Collection
Description
In 1901, the neo-pre-Raphaelite artist Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale became an overnight success with a show of watercolours at the London dealers Dowdeswell’s. The works were characterized by critics as decorative moralities relying on allegory and literary reference. Focussing on one of these works, The Gilded Apple, allows an examination of this millennial moment of currency for the moral parable in which the traditional benchmark of wealth, good and benefit - gold - was a central referent.
(Gerrish Nunn, Pamela. "All is not Gold that Glitters: The Gilded Apple (1899)." Polysèmes 15 (2016).
Monna Vanna
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Gossip
Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1848-1917)
Date: ca. 1885
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private Collection
Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation)
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)
Date: ca. 1849-1850
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Description
Here, the angel Gabriel is telling the Virgin Mary that she will give birth to Jesus Christ. Dante Gabriel Rossetti portrays his sister, the poet Christina Rossetti, as Mary. Both siblings were exploring personal perspectives in their work, engaging with intimate emotions and rejecting more detached approaches. In this painting, the artist adapts medieval depictions of the Annunciation to this more modern, psychological view. Unusually, we see Mary in her bedroom where the angel has disturbed her dreams. Anxiety is suggested by the eerie colouring, her wide eyes and shrinking pose.
The Hayfield
Artist: Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821–1893)
Date: ca. 1855-1856
Medium: Oil on mahogany
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
La Donna della Finestra (The Lady of Pity)
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossett (English, 1828-1882)
Date: 1879
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Audrey's Toilet
Artist: Arthur Hugues (English, 1832-1915)
Date: 1897
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private Collection
Joan of Arc
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)
Date: 1864
Medium: Watercolor on board
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Forest Lovers
Artist: John Young Hunter (British, 1874-1955)
Date: 1902
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private Collection:
Description
Painted in 1902 and exhibited that year at the Royal Academy, Forest Lovers is an enchanting scene representative of the profound influence that the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had upon John Young-Hunter. Indeed, the art critic and painter A.L. Baldry described Young-Hunter and his wife, Mary, as the ‘new Pre-Raphaelites’. This phenomenon of a late flowering of this style, half a century after the Brotherhood was founded, was celebrated in a landmark exhibition staged at the Barbican in 1989, entitled The Last Romantics.
Rendered in exquisite detail, the present scene is rich with the sense of clandestine romance so typical to the work of artists such as Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Sir John Everett Millais. The adoring soldier, his pole and shield discarded nearby, reclines in serenade before his lover who, dressed in a luminous cerulean blue gown, gazes directly at the viewer. The composition is rich with symbolic intimations, from the single magpie perched among the foliage of the abundant orange tree, to the rosary beads clasped in the hands of the female figure.
Rosabelle
Artist: Emma Sandys (British, 1834-1877)
Date: 1865
Medium: Oil on board
Collection: Private Collection
Dante's Dream
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828=1882)
Date: ca. 1869-1871
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Description
Rossetti had a life-long interest in the Italian poet Dante. This painting shows an episode from the 'Vita Nuova'. In it Dante dreams that he is led by Love to the death-bed of Beatrice Portinari, the object of his unrequited passion.
The Eve of St. Agnes
Artist: William Holman Hunt (English, 1847-1857)
Date: 1847-1857
Medium: Oil on mahogany
Collection: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Description
This painting was inpired by John Keats' poem of the same name. The poem was based upon the ancient belief that if a young woman prayed to St Agnes on the eve of her feast, then she would see in her sleep the face of the man she was destined to marry.
Boreas and Oreithyia
Artist: Evelyn De Morgan (English, 1855-1919)
Date: 1896
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The De Morgan Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Description
In this painting Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind, is represented as usual as a winged man of mature age, with hair floating in the wind. According to the legend, he carried off Oreithyia (daughter of Erechtheus) from the banks of the Ilissus and by her had several children. However, Evelyn’s portryal of Boreas is sensitive and tender in comparision with more the more standard bachanelean treatments of the character.