Search results for: “frederick sandys”
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Frederick Sandys’ Proud Maisie drawings
Proud Maisie (3 versions), drawings by Frederick Sandys. The first two versions of this drawing are in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and share a single page, with a link to the image on green paper below the primary image. There doesn’t seem to be a separate description for the second drawing, so…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederick Sandys’ Medea
Medea, Frederick Sandys Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Birmingham Museum. The painting was kept from public view, though accepted to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1868, because it was thought to be unacceptably in bad taste, largely due to the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederick Sandys’ Grace Rose
Grace Rose, Frederick Sandys On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art.
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Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant Garde
My love of British Pre-Raphaelite painting goes back to childhood. I grew up just outside of Wilmington, Delaware, and from an early age my artistic diet was rich in the the glorious storytelling of Howard Pyle and his students, and the dazzling works of the Pre-Raphaelites, both of which are represented by strong collections at…
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The Cult of Beauty
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 of the Pre-Raphaelites, the drama of the romantic painters and…