Pre-Raphaelite Women, Art, & Poetry, Part E

Pre-Raphaelite Women

The Brotherhood Gallery

INDEX

• Alma-Tadema, Lawrence
• Brown, Ford Madox
• Burne-Jones, Edward
• Collier, John
• Collins, Charles Allston
• Cowper, Frank Cadogan
• Delville, Jean
• Dicksee, Frank
• Hughes, Arthur
• Hunt, William Holman.
• Leighton, Edmund Blair
• Leighton, Frederic
• Mackintosh, Charles R.
• Millais, John Everett.
• Morris, William
• Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
• Sandys, Anthony Frederick
• Solomon, Simeon
• Strudwick, John Melhuish
• Waterhouse, John W.
• Watts, George Frederic.

Male Artists

• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Artmagick)--biography and 49 paintings. Alma-Tadema (CGFA)--two pages of images. Selected Works --sixteen pages of images.

The Favorite Poet by Alma-Tadema

• Ford Madox Brown

• Ford Madox Brown (Artmagick)--biography and 20 paintings.

The Finding of Don Juan by Haidee
by Ford Madox Brown

• Sir Edward Burne-Jones

• Sir Edward Burne-Jones (Artmagick)--biography and 101 paintings. Burne-Jones-- biography, plus three pages of images. Selected Works-- eight pages of images. Read about Circe-Sorceress in many of his paintings. View these Sleeping Beauty illustrations. Here is commentary on Sleeping Beauty/Briar Rose: sleeping woman. Many images at this gallery.

Pilgrim in the Garden, or The Heart of the Rose
by Edward Burne-Jones

The Mirror of Venus by Edward Burne-Jones

The Wedding of Psyche by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

• Hon. John Collier

• Hon. John Collier (Artmagick)--biography and 36 paintings. Click on the images to enlarge them. Here is Priestess of Delphi.

Guinevere A-Maying [detail]
by John Collier

• Charles Allston Collins

• Charles Allston Collins (Artmagick)--biography and 3 paintings.

Convent Thoughts
by Charles Collins

• Frank Cadogan Cowper

• Frank Cadogan Cowper (Artmagick)--biography and 34 paintings. Here are nine images.

La Belle Dame sans Merci
by Frank Cadogan Cowper

• Jean Delville

• Jean Delville--biography. See 14 images.

Medusa by Jean Delville

• Sir Frank Dicksee

• Sir Frank Dicksee (Artmagick)--biography and 43 paintings. Two good images (CGFA site). Dicksee Gallery--eighteen images.

The Offering by Sir Frank Dicksee

• Arthur Hughes

• Arthur Hughes (Artmagick)--biography and 27 images. Selected works--four pages.

Ophelia and He Will Not Come Again
by Arthur Hughes

See also my Ophelia Page.

• William Holman Hunt

• William Holman Hunt (Artmagick)--biography and 34 paintings. Selected Works --three pages of images. Commentary on Awakening Conscience; an essay on the themes and iconography of The Awakening Conscience; comments on the fallen woman image. See this analysis of Hunt's Awakening Conscience.  For more on Hunt, see the rest of the William Holman Hunt Overview (Landow site). See biography/8 images (CGFA site)--click on thumbnails.

• Edmund Blair Leighton

• Edmund Blair Leighton (Artmagick)--biography and 74 paintings. Selected Works --two pages of images.

The Accolade
by Edmund Blair Leighton

• Lord Frederic Leighton

• Frederic Leighton (Artmagick)--biography and 44 paintings. Selected Works --ten pages of images.

Flaming June by Frederic Leighton

The Painter's Honeymoon
by Frederick Leighton

• Charles Rennie Mackintosh

• Charles Rennie Mackintosh--biography and all things Mackintosh. Charles Rennie Mackintosh--four pages of images.

Wassail by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

• Sir John Everett Millais

• Sir John Everett Millais (Artmagick)--biography and 56 paintings. Selected Works --seven pages of images.

Perhaps the most famous PR painting:
Ophelia by John Everett Millais

See also my Ophelia Page.

• William Morris

• William Morris Society--many links on all sources related to Morris. See also PRB Stained Glass Window series--Tristan and Yseult images (stained glass windows). More stained glass by Morris. Seven sketches/drawings for stained glass windows (Tate Gallery/Museum).

Angel
[detail of stained glass window]
by William Morris

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti--images/information on my web page "Pre-Raphaelite Women, Part A." See Rossetti's "Lilith" image in left column of this page.

• Anthony Frederick Sandys

• Anthony Frederick Sandys (Artmagick)--biography and 21 paintings. Selected works --three pages of images.

Vivien by Anthony Frederick Sandys

• Simeon Solomon

• Simeon Solomon (Artmagick)--biography and 31 images. Many images here. National Gallery of Art image: King Solomon.

The Sleepers, and the One that Watcheth
by Simeon Solomon

• John Melhuish Strudwick

• John Melhuish Strudwick (Artmagick)--biography and 21 paintings.

Gentle Music of a Bygone Day
by John M. Strudwick

Evensong by John M. Strudwick

• John William Waterhouse

• John William Waterhouse (Artmagick)--biography and 185 paintings. Waterhouse site--impressive and comprehensive site!

Hylas and the Nymphs by John Waterhouse

Ulysses and the Sirens by John Waterhouse

• George Frederick Watts

• George Frederick Watts (Artmagick)--biography and 36 paintings.

Galahad
by George Frederick Watts

Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators (Male)

NOTE: There are many links to Arthurian illustrations on my King Arthur

web page. See also my seven-page Arthurian Legends Illustrated.

• Aubrey Beardsley

• Selected Works --four pages of images. Many links to Beardsley images, including his erotica.

Chapter designs by Aubrey Beardsley

King Arthur illustration by Beardsley

• Walter Crane

• Walter Crane--biography and 42 images; another Crane biography/illustrations, and many links to fairy tale illustrations (Surlalune site) in eleven books.

Beauty and the Beast by Walter Crane

• Kay Nielsen

• Kay (pronounced KIGH) Nielsen--biography and images; another biography with images. Excellent Fairy Tale Illustrations by Nielsen from different books (Surlalune site). Excellent image of Tam Lin and Fair Janet.

Illustration by Kay Nielsen

• Arthur Rackham

• Fairy Tale Illustrations by Arthur Rackham (Surlalune site)--links to many illustrations from various books. Many, many links here: Arthur Rackham Art Images. View images at Illustrator Arthur Rackham.

Undine by Arthur Rackham

• Elihu Vedder

• Elihu Vedder--wonderful National Museum of American Art exhibit of his illustrations for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Introduction, 50 illustrations, essay commenting on the illustrations, biography, etc.

Cup of Death by Elihu Vedder

So when the Angel of the darker Drink

At last shall find you by the river-brink,

And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul

Forth to your Lips to quaff -- you shall not shrink.

(Fitzgerald'sRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám)

Related Resources:

• The Male Gaze: D.G. Rossetti
• Christina Rossetti, PR Poet
• PR Models, Lovers, Art-Sisters
• PR Art-Sisters Gallery

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Painting, left margin: "Lady Lilith" by D. G. Rossetti

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