oil on canvas
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale - Love and his Counterfeits
Pencil and Watercolor w/scratching out, laid down on canvas
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Edward Burne-Jones - The Mill – Girls dancing to music by a river
1870-1882
oil on canvas
Given to the V&A by Constantine Alexander Ionides, 1901
oil on canvas
Given to the V&A by Constantine Alexander Ionides, 1901
Monday, April 27, 2009
Edward Burne-Jones - The Madness of Sir Tristram
1862
The design comes from a set of thirteen stained glass panels illustrating the story of Sir Tristram, which Burne-Jones designed for Morris and Company.
Brooch - Carlo Giuliano
Carlo Giuliano was probably trained in the Castellani workshops in Rome before he accompanied Alessandro Castellani in about 1860 to London, where he established a manufactory at 13 Frith Street, Soho. He supplied a number of the leading retail jewellers in London, and in 1874 opened his own retail premises at 115 Piccadilly. His jewellery was much admired by the Pre-Raphaelite painters and their circle. He made jewels for Sir Edward Poynter (1836-1919) and Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), and lent a jewel to Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).
V&A
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Beauty in all things: The Delaware Art Museum and The Pre Raphaelites (post)
From the excellent blog In the Labyrinth:
Cherries on a panel - William Morris
Cherries on a panel in the V&A's Morris Room, decorated by Morris & Co., designed by Philip Webb. London, UK, 1866-68.
V&A
Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Lady of Shalott - William Holman Hunt
c. 1886-1905
Oil on canvas
74 x 57 1/2 inches
Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Oil on canvas
74 x 57 1/2 inches
Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Friday, April 24, 2009
Ford Madox Brown - Chair
Plate on page 29, Decoration and Furniture of Town Houses by Sir Robert William Edis F.S.A. 1881. showing Morris & Co side chair by Ford Madox Brown.
He designed early Morris & Co furniture including a green painted bedroom suite for Morris’s own house in Kelmscott.
He designed early Morris & Co furniture including a green painted bedroom suite for Morris’s own house in Kelmscott.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Frederick Sandys - Marie Meredith
Pencil and Watercolor heightened with Chalk on Light Blue Paper
(for sale)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Walter Crane - Willows whiten, aspens quiver
Watercolour
1858-59
1858-59
illustration for Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott"
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Henry Wallis - The carving of Shakespeare's monument in Stratford
A painting by Wallis depicing Gerard Johnson carving Shakespeare's funerary monument. Ben Jonson shows Shakespeare's death mask to the sculptor.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Simeon Solomon - Zephyr
Blue crayon over pencil on paper
Signed with initials, inscribed and dated 1887
Signed with initials, inscribed and dated 1887
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Victorian Muse - by Jason M. Rosenfeld (Artnet)
[Gypsy Horse Drovers - Lucy Kemp-Welch 1894 oil on canvas]
Saturday, April 18, 2009
G F Watts - Study of a seated woman, possibly Lady Dalrymple
pencil (or is it metalpoint?) on off-white wove paper
1850-2
Trellis Wallpaper
Trellis was Morris’s first attempt at designing a wallpaper. Its pattern is said to have been inspired by the gardens at Red House, which were organised on a medieval plan with square flowerbeds enclosed by wattle trellises for roses. The birds were drawn by Philip Webb.