The Raven', Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Ink and wash on paper, drawn about 1848, 23 x 21.6cm, Wightwick Manor, The Munro Collection (on loan to National Trust)

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven' about a poet, haunted by memories of his dead love. A raven flies in, perches on a bust of Pallas Athene and answers the poet's tormented questions about his lost love with the unchanging refrain "Nevermore".

The theme of lovers separated by death fascinated Rossetti throughout his career.

This was drawn just a few months before the foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

John Samuel Raven - A Song of Joy and Gladness

John Samuel Raven 1829-1877

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

A Song of Joy and Gladness
Oil on paper laid onto panel; signed with monogram and dated 1867 verso, within a painted mount inscribed 'For lo the winter is past/ The rain is over and gone/ The flowers appear on the earth/ The time of the singing of birds is come'; bears label on the reverse 'Painted by John Raven/ Came from Merlwood-/ Hung at Eggerslack + Craig Foot/ Left to Caree [?] Willie Carius- left/ to us by Consie Zoe Carius/ Hung up at Bracken Fold, Sep. 1931'

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, POSSIBLY MARIA ZANBACO, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, POSSIBLY MARIA ZANBACO, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Red chalk, late 1860s, signed EBJ, at Wightwick Manor

Portrait of Winifred Robers - Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale 1913

Detail of the hand-knotted carpet by William Morris, probably of the 1890s, in the Oak Room at Wightwick Manor

Study of a Young Woman Red chalk; signed, inscribed 'Miss Lichfield' Henry Holiday

Clerk Saunders, watercolour by Elizabeth Siddal

1857

Tomb of Frederick Richards Leyland

Tomb of Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892), collector of Renaissance artworks and patron of the Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler, and Albert Moore. Brompton Cemetery, London.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Woman with Crossed Arms

Wightwick Manor

http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/exhibitions/7983631/at-home-with-the-pre-raphaelites/

Sophie Gengembre Anderson Wild Roses