Pre Raphaelite Art

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Watts Gallery, Compton, review

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8587497/Watts-Gallery-Compton-review.html

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Labels: George Frederic Watts

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A blog to accompany my other art blogs featuring the art and artists labelled as Pre Raphaelite. Though I'm sure it will wander into William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement and aesthetes and art nouveau.

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  • Victorian Masters - Russell Ash
  • Rossetti - David Rodgers
  • Essential Pre-Raphaelites - Lucinda Hawksley
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Circle - by Jan Marsh
  • Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood - by Jan Marsh
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