What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I, for one, always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, pea-soupers (thick London fog), public ...

A 155-year-old letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to the banker and collector George Rae is going on show in Liverpool this week, explaining why the Pre-Raphaelite artist couldn’t make a meeting ...

When the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti met the young ... with a notorious art dealer called Charles Howell as witness. When the coffin was prised open Howell claimed that she was perfectly ...

There exists a set of copies of four of the St George designs in Birmingham City Art Gallery made by Rosa Corder, mistress of Rossetti’s sometime agent and personal secretary Charles Howell. These are ...

In fact, despite rearranging his given names from "Gabriel Charles Dante" to "Dante Gabriel," Rossetti (1828-82), the most influential member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, or PRB, never set ...

Lilith was a natural choice for Rossetti. Seeking a return to the aesthetics of Quattrocento Italian painting, Pre-Raphealite artists exalted luxurious colors and intricate details, drawing their ...

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How the Rossettis and their circle turned the gendered conflicts of Victorian society into art. By Michael Prodger In 1849 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the 21-year-old poet-artist and founder member of the ...

Mr. Dunn was a young English water colorist whose fortune it was to please Rossetti with some of his work and to be engaged by him to assist him in some of his own. He thus was admitted to the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal (Rossetti’s wife), and Ford Madox Brown. Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the ...