Pre-Raphaelite Paintings

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The Mystic Marriage

Artist: Circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic and gold on paper

Collection: Private Collection

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Astarte Syriaca

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)

Date: 1877

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

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By the Waters of Babylon

Artist: Evelyn de Morgan

Date: c. 1882-1883

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: De Morgan Foundation, London, United Kingdom

Description

Illustrates the Biblical story of the Exile of the Jews in Psalm 137:

“By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there, we hung up our lyres For there our captors required of us songs, And our tormentors, mirth, saying 'Sing us one of the Songs of Zion How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

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The Writing Lesson

Artist: James Collinson (English, 1825-1881)

Date: 1855

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private Collection

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Azaleas

Artist: Emma Sandys (British, 1843-1877)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private Collection

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Cupid and Psyche

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833–1898)

Date: c. 1870

Medium: Watercolor, gouache and pastel on moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper mounted on linen

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Here, Burne-Jones depicts the moment Cupid first encounters the sleeping Psyche and looks upon a vulnerable woman with an unrequited gaze, as described in Morris’s poem: “long he stood above her hidden eyes / With red lips parted in god’s surprise.”

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The Duet: Portraits of Alexandra, Daughter of Rev. G. Kitchin and Winifrid, Daughter of the Painter

Artist: Henry James Holiday (British, 1839-1927)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper

Collection: Property from the Collection of Sir Rod Stewart, C.B.E.

Description

Holiday's daughter Winifrid (1866-1949) became a violinist and violin teacher, alongside her work as a suffragette.

Alexandra Kitchin (1864-1912) was named after her god-mother Alexandra of Denmark (then Princess of Wales), and was also the subject of at least five photographs by Lewis Carroll aged between four and sixteen.

Reverend Dr George William Kitchin (1827-1912) was the first Chancellor of the University of Durham and Dean of Winchester, and a friend of Carroll and John Ruskin, as well as Holiday.

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Vivien

Artist: Frederick Sandys (British, 1829-1904)

Date: 1863

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

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Portrait of Miss Davison

Artist: Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)

Date: 1866

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

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The Angel with the Serpent

Artist: Attributed to William de Morgan (1838-1917) and Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Property from an Important Private Collection

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A Cry for Help

Artist: Charles Allston Collins (British, 1828-1873)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Watercolour with gum arabic, on paper laid down on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

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View from Shorn Ridgway, Kent

Artist: Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821-1893)

Date: 1873

Medium: Oil on board

Collection: Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

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Baronne Madeleine Deslandes

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1895-1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929)

Baronne Madeleine Deslandes was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Paris. She was hostess of a busy salon that attracted many Symbolist artists, poets and composers.

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Romance

Artist: Eleanor Forescue-Brickdale (British, 1871-1945)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Watercolor and gouache on card

Collection: Property of a Distinguished Private Collector

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Peace Concluded

Artist: Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829–1896)

Date: 1856

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, United States

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Maria Theresa Zambaco

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828 – 1882)

Date: 1870

Medium: Pastel on paper

Collection: Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany

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Fair Rosamund

Artist: Arthur Hughes (English, 1832-1915)

Date: 1854

Medium: Oil on cardboard

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Description

The story of Rosamund, mistress of Henry II of England, resonated with artists and poets during this period. According to legend, Henry created a secret garden for Rosamund, accessible only by a maze on his property at Oxfordshire. The garden was discovered by the king’s wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, who then poisoned Rosamund.