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) ...

Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...

Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is an escape. In the mausoleum-like lower galleries at the Legion of Honor, there are no windows to remind you of the outside world. There’s ...

The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...

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 ...

The handful of British artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were “a radical yet backward-looking” bunch, said Jeffry Cudlin in the Washington City Paper. The movement’s major ...

The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...

There’s nothing like Europe in the fall. From Frieze in London to FIAC in Paris, there’s plenty of art-market action and, as the summer tourists leave town and the foliage outside begins its colorful ...

Christie’s is honoured to announce The Joe Setton Collection: from Pre-Raphaelites to Last Romantics on 10 December in London. Inspired by Percy Bate’s seminal 1899 book The English Pre-Raphaelite ...

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