Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as revealing new insights into influential artworks.
Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...
A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: Evelyn & William De Morgan in Wilmington, Delaware, showcases paintings and ceramics by two underrecognized yet influential artists. Evelyn De Morgan, “Flora” (detail) ...
Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...
'Direct and serious and heartfelt': The Pre-Raphaelite movement -- The first generation: 1848-65. Anna Mary Howitt. Joanna Boyce. Rosa Brett. Anna Blunden. Elizabeth Siddal -- The second generation: ...
The pre-Raphaelite movement in America: an introduction -- The British brotherhood -- Buchanan Read and the Rossettis -- William J. Stillman: "The American pre-Raphaelite" -- The Crayon: the first ...
Elizabeth Siddal was a much-favorited model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, posing for such iconic pieces as John Everett Millais’ 1852 painting Ophelia. But she was also a talented artist and ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A brotherhood of English 19th-century artists enamoured with the past became inspired by art from the early Renaissance and ...
The National Gallery of Art’s exhibit “The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting” welcomed me with a depiction of two lovers embracing each other passionately. At first glimpse, I had ...
The English don’t really like art,” a celebrated (English) abstract sculptor told me, some time ago. “We like literature and nature—gardens and landscape. That’s why we admire all those artists who go ...