The Blue Bird - Frank Cadogan Cowper

Glacier of Rosenlaui painted - John Brett, 1856

The Debutante - Edward Robert Hughes 1886

Beatrice Stuart - Frank Bernard Dicksee 1912

World-class collection of Pre-Raphaelites displayed for first time in the United Kingdom

[Daniel Maclise, Scene – lawn before the Duke’s palace; Orlando about to engage with Charles, the Duke’s wrestler, 1854]

LONDON.- Works from one of the world’s finest private collections of Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art are being exhibited in the UK for the first time in the unique setting of Leighton House Museum, one of the country’s most exceptional Victorian houses. Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite and Nineteenth-Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection runs from Thursday 26 April - Sunday 23 September 2012. 

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Saint Francis of Assisi and the Heavenly Melody - Frank Cadogan Cowper

An Offering - Frank Bernard Dicksee

The Meeting on the Turret Stairs - Frederick William Burton 1864

Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie) - Edward Robert Hughes

Bertucciova Nevesta - Edward Robert Hughes 1895

Three Saints - Edward Burne-Jones

Day - Edward Robert Hughes

Victorian & British Impressionist Art Thursday 31 May 2012

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Pre Raphaelites paintings to die for

Monna Giovanna - Edward Robert Hughes 1907

Esther - John Everett Millais

Mariana in the South by John William Waterhouse

Endymion - Arthur Hughes 1870

Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate

Location: Birmingham Museum

8th September 2012 - 13th January 2013

This autumn eleven of the most spectacular paintings in the national collection come to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.

This exclusive exhibition will display iconic paintings from Tate alongside related works from Birmingham’s own collection.  The centrepiece will be John William Waterhouse’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1888), one of Tate’s most famous and popular works, which rarely travels outside London.  It will be joined by two other paintings by Waterhouse: a rare opportunity to see this artist inBirmingham.

The exhibition also features classical paintings by the great 19th-century artists Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, revealing the Victorian fascination with re-imagining life in Greece and Rome, from lovers’ flirtations to dramatic martyrdom.

Exploring themes of love, beauty, tragedy and death, these powerful and moving paintings will create a spectacular display.

Gallery 12 & 13. Free admission.

Dante in Exile (detail) - Lord Frederic Leighton 1864

Ophelia (And He Will Not Come Again) - Arthur Hughes 1871

The Siren Edward - John Poynter

Cupid and Psyche - Annie Swynnerton 1891

Convent Thoughts (detail) - Charles Allston Collins 1851

A Classical Maiden - John William Godward

Distant Thoughts - Thomas Francis Dicksee 1886

I Wonder Who Lived in There - Joseph Noel Paton

Rossetti's studio

One face looks out from all his canvases,
One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans:
We found her hidden just behind those screens,
That mirror gave back all her loveliness.
A queen in opal or in ruby dress,
A nameless girl in freshest summer-greens,
A saint, an angel — every canvas means
The same one meaning, neither more or less.
He feeds upon her face by day and night,
And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:
Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;
Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.

“In an Artist’s Studio” by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Image: Detail of the interior of Gabriel Dante Rossetti’s studio at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Drawing by H. Treffry Dunn (1882?) taken from H. C. Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life (1899)

Ellen Terry, James Carew

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth By John Singer Sargent. Tate Britain.

Ellen Terry Bedroom

Ellen Terry's house in Kent

Il Ramoscello Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1865

Grace Rose Frederick Sandys 1866

Horae Serenae Edward John Poynter

Dorothea and the Roses Henry Ryland

Earth Mother Edward Burne-Jones 1882

Ellen Terry

Sisters - G F Watts

Hylas and the Nymphs (detail) - 1896 by John William Waterhouse

La Primavera - Henry Ryland

The Woman Taken in Adultery (after Rembrandt van Rijn) by William Holman Hunt c. 1845

Study for 'The Eve of St Agnes' by William Holman Hunt 1847-8

Self Portrait by William Holman Hunt 1845

Elizabeth Allhusen by Edmund Dulac

Arthur Hacker - Orchard

The Merciful Knight - Edward Burne-Jones

This is arguably Burne-Jones's most important early work. In the memorial biography of her husband, Georgiana Burne-Jones stated that it seemed: 'to sum up and seal the ten years that had passed since Edward first went to Oxford'. In terms of design, technique and expression, the picture demonstrates that Burne-Jones had reached a new and more personal style. It remained Burne-Jones's own favourite among his early works and in 1894 he tried to borrow it to make a large oil version.The subject is taken from the life of the Florentine knight St John Gualberto, founder of the Valombrosan Order in 1039, who was miraculously embraced by a wooden figure of Christ while praying at a wayside shrine after forgiving the murder of his kinsman. This obscure legend was unlikely to be familiar to a wide audience and this further enhanced its mystical and intensely poetic quality. Incidentally, the marigolds in the foreground came from the 'town garden' in Russell Square, close to Burne-Jones's house opposite the British Museum.


Watercolour with bodycolour on paper.