Simeon Solomon - Sappho and Erinna in the garden Mytelene

heightened with white
signed with monogram (l.r.)
dated 2.64
13 x 14.5"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinna
Legend has it that Sappho and Erinna met at a community of young girls who worshippesd Aphrodite at Mytelene on the island of Lesbos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Simeon Solomon was known affectionately as the darling of the Pre-Raphaelites, until his tragic rejection from polite society following his arrest in February 1873, aged 32, in a public lavatory in London. His charge with indecent exposure (and 'attempting to commit buggery') received a £100 fine and ruined his career.
http://www.studio-international.co.uk/painting/love_revealed.asp
and this picture may well be a comment on his own situation.

Collection of Letters - John Everett Millais

This collection of letters were made by William Henry Millais in 1852/3 and describe painting trips with his brother John. In the second picture shown here it is John carving the meat. The first includes Ruskin and Effie (still married at this time) on their northward journey to Brig o'Turk near Callander in the Trossachs in 1853.

Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale - Head of a Tudor Girl

signed EFB l.l.
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour
13 1/4 x 9"

Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale - A Hue and Cry after Cupid

Watercolour

produced as a plate for Old English Songs and Ballads, 1915

16 x 12 1/4"

the title is from Ben Jonson

signed with initials EFB lr

Edward Burne-Jones - Cartoons for Berlin

[Cartoons for stained glass windows in the English Church, Berlin]

arched top, 69 x 34"

comissioned in 1886 for the English Church of St George in Berlin (totally destroyed in 1944).

Edward Burne-Jones - Head of a Girl

Pencil and red chalk
11 3/4 x 12"

The sitter was Augusta Jones and this was probably drawn in the mid 1860's when she often sat for him. This seems to be a sketch related to his watercolour Astrologia.

Reginald Barratt

[The Palazzo Ducale, Venice]
signed 'Reginald Barratt/1903'
watercolour over pencil
14.5 x 10"

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vNzQnr3nGMwC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=reginald+barratt,+artist&source=bl&ots=TligWAyxzQ&sig=1mW9_kvUak2LxcvYOlSQp4pcfcA&hl=en&ei=yiD6S5_VHYKM0gSPh_DpBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=reginald%20barratt%2C%20artist&f=false

http://www.artnet.com/artist/583972/reginald-barratt.html

http://fineart.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=5002&Lot_No=63062

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Reginald-Barratt/Reginald-Barratt-oil-paintings.html