Saturday, August 8, 2009
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - La Ghirlandata (The Bower Meadow)
1871-2
Its funny. When i first started this blog I wasn't going to feature Rossetti more than I had to as he was my least favourite of the PRB, but though I still don't admire his character, his paintings have grown on me, and I particularly like this one.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Solitaire Miles and Arthur Hughes (post)
I must highlight Grace's beautiful post at The Beautiful Necessity on the digital art of Solitaire Miles.
Wonderful.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
John Everett Millais - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
An exhibition devoted to Lord Alfred Tennyson – and the many distinguished house guests who visited him – opens at his Isle of Wight home today.
William Gershom Collingwood
After a brilliant academic career at Oxford, where he was a pupil of John Ruskin, he married and settled at Gillhead, Windermere.
He was influenced by John Ruskin, and William Morris, from who he derived a life-long interest in Norse settlement, art and language. His interest in art and Scandinavia prompted his research into the Pre-Norman Crosses of Cumbria and the North of England. In 1927 he published 'Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age', illustrated with his own drawings.
Collingwood lived at Lanehead, beside Coniston Water, about a mile from Brantwood, John Ruskin's home from 1871 to 1900, and was Ruskin's secretary from 1881 onwards. After Ruskin's death, he became Professor of Fine Art at University College, Reading. He founded the Lake Artists Society in 1904, and the Society still has an annual exhibition during August, in Grasmere Village Hall.
He was influenced by John Ruskin, and William Morris, from who he derived a life-long interest in Norse settlement, art and language. His interest in art and Scandinavia prompted his research into the Pre-Norman Crosses of Cumbria and the North of England. In 1927 he published 'Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age', illustrated with his own drawings.
Collingwood lived at Lanehead, beside Coniston Water, about a mile from Brantwood, John Ruskin's home from 1871 to 1900, and was Ruskin's secretary from 1881 onwards. After Ruskin's death, he became Professor of Fine Art at University College, Reading. He founded the Lake Artists Society in 1904, and the Society still has an annual exhibition during August, in Grasmere Village Hall.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale - The Rose (detail)
Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil
14 1/4 x 10 3/8 inches
14 1/4 x 10 3/8 inches
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