Art influenced by the art and themes of the Pre Raphaelites with biographies, auctions and information on these artists.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
G F Watts
[Composition sketch for an unexecuted mural]
oil on panel
9 3/8 x 21¼ in.
Price Realized £6,000
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=4826953&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
[Perseus and Andromeda: a sketch]
oil on panel
18½ x 10 7/8 in.
Price Realized £4,800
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=2&intObjectID=4826954&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
[Study for Rider on the White Horse]
oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 21 in.
Price Realized £1,080
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=3&intObjectID=4826955&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
[Composition sketch]
oil on panel
16½ x 9½ in.
Price Realized £2,400
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=4&intObjectID=4826956&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Love, Loss and Intimacy exhibition
[Study for Cupid finding Psyche 1870
model: Maria Zambaco]
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/lovelossintimacy/
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/love-loss-intimacy-ngv-artists-and-models/story-e6frg8n6-1225855981718
Edward Burne-Jones - St Barbara, St Dorothy and St Agnes
oil on canvas, unlined
33 x 33 in. (83.8 x 83.8 cm.); probably in the original frame
Price Realized £545,600
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=8&intObjectID=4826950&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Sunday, April 25, 2010
John Everett Millais - The Introduction
with inscription 'Painted by Millais/1846' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
5 x 4 5/8 in.
Price Realized £4,200
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=6&intObjectID=4826948&sid=069e7a5c-1b80-4e19-a40a-23175dcc26a3
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
John Brett - Nr Sorrento
Watercolour and bodycolour on paper
http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1917p34/near-sorrento/
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts Jewellery
Ford Madox Brown - Emma Hill: study for "The Last of England"
1852
Black chalk, with wash
One of the most direct and appealing of all Pre-Raphaelite portrait drawings, this study of Brown's future wife is a notable result of the artist's hard work on 'The Last of England' in the winter of 1852.
Brown had met Matilda Hill (always known as Emma) by Christmas 1848. She was then nineteen, the daughter of a poor farmer who had migrated to London during the agricultural depression of the 1830s.
http://pre-raphs.bmagonline.org/collection/modern-life/emma-hill.html
William Rossetti recalled her having "a pink complexion, regular features, and a fine abundance of beautiful yellow hair, the tint of harvest corn".
Although a daughter, Catherine, was born in November 1850, Emma andBrown did not marry until 1853.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
G F Watts - The Denunciation of Cain, a study
Thursday, April 15, 2010
William Holman Hunt - Hounds
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Copyright laws around the world
[A Sleeping Dog. . Gerrit Dou 1650]
I'm often asked about copyright on these pictures. I mainly work from old auction catalogues where the auction house claims copyright on the photographs of the paintings. Legally this is probably doubtful as they are reproducing the original painting, which is almost certainly out of copyright without adding anything ro it. The position is explained here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/about/copyright-issues.html
This theory has been tested and proven in U.S. courts already: In Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F.Supp.2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be covered by copyright because they lack originality. Even if accurate reproductions may require a great deal of skill, experience and effort, it is a process that lacks originality, a key element for copyrightability under U.S. law. The decision applies only to two-dimensional images such as paintings.
But it is fair to say that in some ways this is a grey area. Proceed with caution.
William Davis - Fetching water
signed 'W Davies [sic]' (lower left beside the blue jug)
oil on board
9¼ x 6 1/8 in.
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?pos=5&intObjectID=4827052&sid=
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
John Brett - The Lizard and Caldy Island
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
John Henry Hill - Fringed Gentians
John Henry Hill, the son of the prominent American Pre-Rraphaelite painter John William Hill
c. 1867
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2359/Fringed_Gentians/set/58584fc9be13df9f5e02b5fa58ba6f91?referring-q=pre-raphaelite
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Porttrait of Mrs Georgina Fernandez
signed with monogram l.l. and dated 1874 l.r.
pastel on pale green paper
21 by 15 in.
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 79,250 GBP
http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?sale_number=L09688&live_lot_id=8
Friday, April 9, 2010
Edward Burne-Jones - Two Studies for Arthur
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Frank Cadogan Cowper - Fair Rosamund and Eleanor
signed and dated F. C. Cowper/1920 (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 by 50 in.
http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=445T8
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Edward Burne-Jones - Sidonia von Bork
signed with monogram (lower left)
watercolor and bodycolor on panel
11 3/8 by 6 1/2 in.
http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=445QZ
Monday, April 5, 2010
John Ruskin - The Castle Rock, Edinburgh
with inscription 'By John Ruskin MA. Wm Ward' (lower right, overmounted)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of white on buff paper; and a subsidiary sketch (on the reverse)
17 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.
Price Realized £6,250
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5275426&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Edward Reginald Frampton - Our Lady of Promise (La Madonna di Promessa)
signed and inscribed 'Our Lady of Promise'/E. Reginald Frampton 1 Brook Green Studios Brook Green London W14 £600.00'
oil on canvas
50 x 46 in.
Price Realized £145,250
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=7&intObjectID=5275390&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd
Friday, April 2, 2010
Solomon Joseph Solomon - Eve
oil on canvas
122 x 56 in.
Price Realized £713,250
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5275389&sid=6ee873a5-dc23-4c92-9e6b-d9bf5527fbdd