Francis Ashton Jackson's - Nativity

Shedding light on an obscure pre-Raphaelite

Decades of accumulated grime kept historians from appreciating the skill and ambition of the artist Francis Ashton Jackson

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Shedding+light+on+an+obscure+pre-Raphaelite/25508

Florence Camm family were a real glass act

http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/postfeatures/2009/03/27/florence-camm-family-were-a-real-glass-act-65233-23240002/#ixzz1rZEG0X2C

Unkown portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti emerges

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/9194053/Unkown-portrait-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-emerges.html

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Christie's Press Release


http://www.christies.com/about/press-center/releases/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=5473


sale :  LONDON, 31 MAY 2012

Rossetti's grave

Birchington, Kent
picture courtesy of Kirsty Walker
(author of 'Stunner')

Newly found Rossetti drawings reveal how Pre-Raphaelite master developed his style

Three previously unknown drawings by the Pre-Raphaelite master Dante Gabriel Rossetti have been discovered and are going up for sale at auction.

Experts are thrilled about the discovery, because the paintings show how Rossetti developed the style that made him famous - and they also feature his muse and sister-in-law Jane Morris, with whom he had a 17-year affair.

The pen and ink drawings, which were painted between 1849 and 1870, will go under the hammer in Dorchester on April 12 and are expected fetch £20,000.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127256/Newly-Rossetti-drawings-reveal-Pre-Raphaelite-master-developed-style.html#ixzz1rYnpPnwr

John Millais - Christ in the House of his Parents

Study, c. 1849  Tate

Picture 1849-50, Tate

Dickens thought it 'Odious, repulsive and revolting'. Fascinating the differences between study and finished picture.

John Everett Millais - Merry

Curator Peter Trippi looks at key works in the exhibition

In this series of online films, art historian and Waterhouse biographer Peter Trippi takes an in-depth looks at key works in the exhibition J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite.


http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/waterhouse/video-curator-peter-trippi-looks-at-key-works-in-the-exhibition/

Lord Lloyd-Webber with one of his artworks, 'Snowdrops', by Rossetti.

Spring postings

My health is still crap and I've got a lot going on. But I've found so much new material I will try to add some more posts over the next day or so. I'm still working on Facebook (under my real name Phillip Brown) particularly in the Jane Morris group. Be back as soon as I can.

[Birmingham Art Gallery]