John Everett Millais - Wilkie Collins 1850

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

Simeon Solomon - O Pot O Pot, 1884

William Anstey Dolland - Classical Beauties

John Everett Millais

http://www.drawpaintsculpt.com/artist-biographies/sir-john-millais/

John Brett - Lady in Mediaeval Dress, c.1859

John Brett - Looking Out of Loch Corrie, 27th August 1885

George Frederic Watts - Loch Ness

John William Waterhouse - Circe, c.1911-14

John Everett Millais - Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, later 8th Duke of Devonshire

John Everett Millais - Euphemia Chalmers ('Effie') Gray, Mrs John Ruskin

oil on panel, 1853
230 x 210mm
Wightwick Manor


Painted while the Ruskins and Millais were on hoiday in Scotland in July 1853.

Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites new documentary for ITV1

With preview clips

On Sunday 1 May at 10.15 pm, ‘Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites’ will air on ITV1


http://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/news/andrew-lloyd-webber-a-passion/

Blog break

I have to take a break for a while - back when I can.

George Frederic Watts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frederic_Watts http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/gf-watts/biography

Dante Gabriel Rossetti by George Frederic Watts

G F Watts - Physical Energy, Kensington

Dame Ellen Terry as Katherine of Aragon Shakespeare Henry VIII

1892 picture of Victorian actress Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928) as William Shakespeare's Queen Katherine of Aragon in his play Henry VIII. Dame Ellen is wearing a costume designed for a production of Henry VIII at the Lyceum in London by Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905).

I can't find the artist of this - gnash.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Portrait of Frederick Richard Leyland (1879)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/pre-raphaelite/dante-gabriel-rossetti/11593

Aubrey Beardsley - Lady Gold's Escort

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/aesthetic-movement/aubrey-vincent-beardsley/12511

Walter Crane - The Swan Maidens (1894)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/walter-crane/12788

Walter Crane - Here's Venus' Combe for Maidenhair (1899)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/aesthetic-movement/walter-crane/10537

Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong?

The aesthetic movement rejected John Ruskin's high-minded approach to art – but there was real radicalism behind his moralising http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/mar/29/aesthetic-movement-john-ruskin

John Everett Millais - Portrait of Effie Ruskin, later Lady Millais (neé Euphemia Chalmers Gray) (England, 1853)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/pre-raphaelite/john-everett-millais/14692

Portrait of Effie with Foxgloves in her Hair (The Foxglove) after Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) (England, 1853)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/pre-raphaelite/euphemia-effie-chalmers-ruskin-n%c3%83%c2%89e-gray-later-lady-millais/15836

John Ruskin - Spur of Piazetta Shaft Venice (Italy, 1861)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/pre-raphaelite/john-ruskin/13707

William J J C Bond - Trout Stream in Wales (Wales, 1866)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/liverpool-school-of-artists/william-joseph-j-c-bond/12238