Dame Alice Ellen Terry (Choosing), George Frederick Watts. On Wikimedia Commons, title page here. Original is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. A little Victorian morality play, choosing between the camellias, which are dramatically beautiful but don’t have a strong scent — representing worldly pursuits, Read More …
Though not technically a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (which consisted of only seven artists and writers) Valentine Cameron Prinsep was certainly within the inner levels of their circle. He was good friends with John Everett Millais and Edward Burne-Jones, worked on a project for Read More …
That period in British cultural history that is sometimes called the “Gilded Age”, corresponding to the “Belle Époque”, or the “beautiful era” in France, and similar movements in America and elsewhere that we associate with the grace and style of Art Nouveau, the exquisite paintings Read More …
Evelyn Pickering knew at a very early age that she wanted to be an artist. At a point in the mid-19th Century when it was possible, but still not entirely acceptable, for women to do so, she convinced her parents to allow her to attend Read More …