
Fanny Cornforth, the artist’s mistress, was the model for this striking image. The cornflowers at the front refer to her name and the passion flowers suggest her fiery...

Fanny Cornforth, the artist’s mistress, was the model for this striking image. The cornflowers at the front refer to her name and the passion flowers suggest her fiery...

“I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have...

Pre-Raphaelite beauty and muse Jane Morris (1839—1914), née Burden, came from a poor working class background and was spotted by Rossetti while watching a theatre...

This is an early, unfinished version of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ‘The Blessed Damozel‘ (1875-8, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University). The picture was begun in September...

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844—1927) was one of a small number of professional female artists working in the second half of the 19th century. She was a British painter of...

“Monna Pomona" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828—1882) represented the Roman goddess of fruits and flowers, Pomona. The model is Ada Vernon, she lived on the Kings Road,...
Beauties by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), a Victorian British Pre-Raphaelite artist. His muses: Alexa Wilding, Elizabeth Siddall, Frances Cornford, Jane Morris ❤️

The Pre-Raphaelites were fascinated with redheads, with vast quantities of images featuring flowing, curly, red hair dominating work from the era. Dante Gabriel...

“The Mandolin” could be attributed to both James Smetham (1821—1881) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828—1882). Between 1863 and 1868 Smetham was in the habit of spending...

Samuel Melton Fisher (1859/60–1939) was an English painter of portraits, genre and figurative subjects. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1878. Samuel...

George Frederic Watts (1817—1904) and his great friend Frederic Leighton – along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others – were especially associated in the 1860s with...
Flower Maidens by Émile Eisman-Semenowsky (1857–1911).
The Sleeping Beauty by Archibald Wakley (1873-1906), who was heavily influenced by the second generation of Pre-Raphaelites.

This painting is an illustration of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty was recently sold for £400,000 via Christie’s in London in 2020. Archibald Wakley (1873—1906) was...

In “The Two Crowns” Frank Dicksee (1853—1928) portrays an English medieval prince returning home in triumph on a white horse decorated with three feathers. The Two...

This painting depicts one of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s (1828—1882) favourite models Alexa Wilding as a Roman widow wistfully plucking two lyres to mourn and honour her...

For today, the very last painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828—1882), an English Pre-Raphaelite artist. This oil on panel painting, from 1882, titled “Joan of Arc”....

A dominant, full length female figure, in emerald green robe, gazes towards the viewer, her long thick wavy hair flowing down her back. She has one leg placed forward,...

The sitter for this painting was Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris, who often posed for Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828—1882), an English painter, poet, illustrator,...