Pre Raphaelite Influenced Art: July 2009

[A Glass of Wine with Caesar Borgia] 1893

[John Collier by his first wifeMarion, née Huxley]
circa 1882-1883
Oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Collier_(artist)

Also known as 'Sir Tristram and La Belle Fronde'

1873

c. 1901

Photograph of charcoal drawing(?) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, dated 1870.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Stillman

known as the "American Pre-Raphaelite and husband of Marie Spartali

1873
silver gelatin print, 13 3/4 by 11 1/4 inches.
Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1979.

Red chalk on board
signed E R Hughes. del.
7.87 inches wide 9.84 inches high

Hughes's skill as a portrait draughtsman was well known and was remarked upon in his obituary in the Times. It is very apparent in this sensitive profile drawing. The artist's favoured medium was red chalk and his ability to create subtle rosy tints so impressed Burne-Jones that he corresponded about it with Hughes in 1897, writing: `Your method of using (it) reads admirably, and since you have generously imparted it to me, I shall assuredly use it.'(1)
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1. G.B.-J., Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, (Macmillan, London 1904), volume 2, page 322

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/13157

before 1899
Pencil on blue paper

[Lizzie Siddall played by Amy Manson]

I enjoyed episode 1, which I've only just had time to watch. I'm good at suspending realistic belief and just enjoyed it for what it is, hokum, but good fun hokum, and Amy Manson could be my muse anytime.

The plots for episodes 2/3/4 are up now (spoiler alert!) + various interviews.

http://desperateromantics.co.uk/

by J. B. Bullen

Clarendon Press; illustrated edition (1998)

by Julian Treuherz, Elizabeth Prettejohn
Thames & Hudson (2003)

by Colin Cruise (Editor), Victoria Osborne (Editor)

Merrell Publishers Ltd; illustrated edition edition (2005)

1868

Watercolor
Depicting the artist’s home and studio, where a circle of friends met regularly to discuss the writings of John Ruskin and plan the formation of the American Pre-Raphaelites.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2884/West_Nyack,_New_York

by Frances Spalding
Phaidon (1978)

1870
Signed with a monogram and dated

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/dgr/drawings/15.html

The bulk of Millais’ illustrations are not Pre-Raphaelite. He contributed very widely to a whole series of books and magazines, including 87 drawings for Tennyson, 69 for the magazine Once a Week, 32 to Good Words, 30 drawings plus initial letters for The Cornhill and so on.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/illus/milillus.htm