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Simeon Solomon, The Toilet of a Roman Lady

‘Writing on the Sand’, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1859)

Lady Clare, Elizabeth Siddal, 1857.

Lady Clare, Elizabeth Siddal, 1857. 
This drawing illustrates Tennyson's Lady Clare, in which the heroine's natural mother begs her to conceal her humble origin, lest Lord Ronald withdraw his offer of marriage.

Il Barbagianni Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Portrait of Miss Margaret Millais, 1883

Unprofessional Beauty - Val Prinsep 1885

Love’s Shadow (detail) Frederick Sandys c.1867

Portrait of Miss Margaret Millais

auncelot in the Queen’s Chamber (1857). Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Love and Death Pinterest

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Arthur Hughes - Fair Rosamund

"Forget Me Not", By ~ Arthur Hughes

Lowry's Love of a Stunner Kissed Mouth blog

Lowry at the exhibition of his personal collection, 1977


http://fannycornforth.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/lowrys-love-of-stunner.html

Luna - Evelyn de Morgan

The Young Poet by Arthur Hughes

anny Cornforth 1865 Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Woman Combing Her Hair (study) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1864

Leila 1892. By Frank Dicksee

Woman with a Fan crayon Rossetti

Fanny. by now Mrs Timothy Hughes *Aug 1860

Rossetti by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) 1863

Rossetti was 35 seated in the garden at Tudor House. A year before the publication Rossetti was the star and a catch. They first met in Oxford when Rossetti was working on the murals. Pity he didn't photograph Jane.

John William Waterhouse - ymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus 1900

Edward Burne-Jones - Sibylla Tiburtina

Edmund Blair Leighton,Tristan and Isolde (detail) 1902

Dante Gabriel Rossetti "La Ghirlandata"

Artist’s model for ihe painting was Alex Wilding.Rossetti first saw Wilding one evening on a London street in the Strand in 1865 and was impressed her beauty. She agreed to pose for him the next day, but did not come at the appointed time. Maybe it scared the dubious reputation of nudes at the time. Weeks passed, and Rossetti has dropped who came to his mind the idea of painting, which for him was very important to see this model when he saw on the street again Alex. He jumped out of the cab, which was riding and persuaded her to go into his studio.

John Everett Millais - North-West Passage

John William Waterhouse - Head of a Young Girl

[Rossetti, Lucy etc.] English Female Artists

I would so love to own this

[Rossetti, Lucy etc.] English Female Artists
Clayton, Ellen C.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876.

First edition. Two volumes. Original light blue blindstamped cloth. Woodcut devices throughout as head and tailpieces, chapter initials, by Walter Crane. Rare treatise on contemporary women artists such as Helen Allingham, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Lucy Rossetti (Madox Brown), E.V.B. and many more. Spine on volume two neatly split along margins, some slight cloth discoloration, but on the whole a very good, tight set of a scarce and attractive work.

http://www.nudelmanbooks.com/pages/books/939/ellen-c-clayton/rossetti-lucy-etc-english-female-artists

An Angel Piping to the Souls in Hell by Evelyn de Morgan, 1916

Eos - Evelyn De Morgan

John William Waterhouse - Gathering Summer Flowers in a Devonshire Garden

The present picture can be dated between 1893 and 1910. Waterhouse's sister-in-law Emily, married the landscape painter Peregrine Feeney, who built a house at Baggy Point, Croyde in Devon, after leaving Primrose Hill in 1892. Both Waterhouse and his wife, Esther, were frequent visitors to the cottage in Croyde where he spent time painting, although few examples of his work from this period are in existence today.

The lady depicted in the rose filled garden may be the artist's wife. She bears a resemblance to the portrait of Esther that Waterhouse completed in 1884 which is now in the Sheffield City Art Gallery. It seems feasible that she may have posed for the picture on one of their visits to Devon, although the exact identity of the figure is difficult to ascertain from her features alone.

Burne- Jones, Edward. Letters to Katie. London: Macmillan, 1925. (Illustrator: "Do you remember my pig? well--it had ten little ones" by Edward Burne-Jones)

Maclaren, Archibald. The Fairy Family. 2nd Ed. London: Macmillan, 1874. (Illustrator: Edward Burne-Jones)

Hueffe, F.M. The Brown Owl. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. (Illustrator: Ford Maddox Brown).

Margaret Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones

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John Duncan - Happiness

St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti “Veronica Veronese"

This picture set up in 1872. Artist’s model for the painting was Alex Wilding.Like many of Rossetti’s paintings in the period from 1860 to 1870 years, Veronica Veronese was inspired by Venetian painting. It shows a “creative soul in the act of creation." This theme is also reflected in the inscription on the frame, signed as a quote from “Letters Girolamo Ridolfi"

Suddenly, leaning forward, Lady Veronica quickly wrote the first notes on the pristine page. Then she took a bow of her violin to make your dream a reality, but before you start to play the instrument hanging from her hands, she remained a few seconds in silence, listening to the birds inspiring her, and her left hand wandered over the strings in the finding the highest melody, still elusive. It was a marriage of nature and the voices of the soul, mystical dawn of creation.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Study for 'Hope' - Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Original autolithograph included as a free supplement in an 1896 ‘The Studio’ magazine Vol. 6 No. 34 Jan 15 1896

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A favour - Edmund Blair Leighton

“My Fair Lady” (1914) by Edmund Blair Leighton

Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future

http://preraphaelitesociety.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/pre-raphaelitism-past-present-and-future-programme-available/

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt by Rupert Potter albumen print, 29 August 1881

Cinderella - Study

Pencil on 'Whatman' paper watermarked 1862

A study for the watercolour exhibited at the Old Watercolour Society in 1864, formerly in the collection of A.E. Street, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, USA. There is another similar study in Birmingham's collection, and another at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester (D.1927.86), which also came from the Holliday collection.

Cinderella - Study

1862 – 1863

A study for the watercolour exhibited at the Old Watercolour Society in 1864, formerly in the collection of A.E. Street, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, USA. There is another similar study in Birmingham's collection, and another at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester (D.1927.86), which also came from the Holliday collection.The figure in this particular study differs from the finished watercolour and Birmingham's other study in that she is much bulkier in size than the others, indicating that perhaps a different model was used. It has been suggested that Fanny Cornforth, Rossetti's primary model and mistress at this time, sat for the figure of Cinderella, which may explain the differentiations in the size of the figure in the studies. In the finished watercolour, Burne-Jones uses the small, delicate facial features, and perhaps body as well, of his wife, Georgiana.

Princess in the Tower by Sir John Everett Millais