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John William Waterhouse: The Necklace
“This is a preliminary idea for an illustration to Keats’s Lamia (Royal Academy, 1909), the tale of a nymph trapped in the body of a serpent. Hermes sets her free, and revives her human form. The picture is a reprise of others by Waterhouse in which a beautiful nymph is seated at the edge of a pool…All…
John William Waterhouse: Female head study for ‘A Naiad’
“This highly-impressionistic sketch is a study of the female model in Waterhouse’s painting of 1893 entitled A Naiad (private collection). It anticipates his masterpiece of three years later Hylas and the Nymphs (1896, Manchester City Gallery), which depicts Hylas, a companion of Hercules, who becomes bewitched by a group of mesmerisingly beautiful water-nymphs who lure…
John William Waterhouse: Miranda, The Tempest
“With the present work Waterhouse demonstrates the breadth of his skill as Miranda braces herself against the rising storm, her thick, auburn hair and the weighty folds of her fabric gripped by the winds. The pale hand held to her breast seemingly visualizes the moment when Miranda cries “Against my very heart. Poor souls, they…
John William Waterhouse: Sketches
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Edward Burne-Jones: The Beguiling of Merlin
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John Everett Millais: Ophelia
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John William Waterhouse: Flora
‘You start in April and cross to the time of MayOne has you as it leaves, one as it comesSince the edges of these months are yours and deferTo you, either of them suits your praises.The Circus continues and the theatre’s lauded palm,Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.‘ Ovid, Fasti (V.185-190) Read Full…
John William Waterhouse: The Soul of the Rose
“Waterhouse’s title is loosely derived from Chaucer’s dream poem, Romaunt of the Rose, itself adapted from the 13th-century French romance: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris. The narrator embarks on a pilgrimage with the god of love, who leads him to a rose symbolizing perfect love. The poem had been treated by Waterhouse’s…
“How Can I Keep From Singing?”
My life goes on in endless song; Above earth’s lamentation,I hear the ring of a far off bell That hails a new creation;Above the tomb of Endless strife I hear its music ringing;It sounds an echo in my soul— How can I keep from singing?While tho’ the tempest around me roars I hear the truth;…
John William Waterhouse: Fair Rosamund
“Like many of the early Pre-Raphaelites who came before him, John William Waterhouse found inspiration in the romantic narratives of the Middle-Ages. While based loosely on verifiable facts, the legend of Rosamund and Queen Eleanor is likely as much of a fairy tale as it is an accurate account… Waterhouse…depicts the moment in which Queen Eleanor…
Frank Cadogan Cowper: Vanity
“Although Cowper did not belong to a particular artistic group this, like many of his paintings, relates to the work of artists now known as ‘Second Generation Pre-Raphaelites’. Decorative and richly coloured, ‘Vanity’ suggests the romance of the past and alludes to notions of the chivalric and courtly love.” Royal Academy UK “The title of…
Frank Cadogan Cowper: Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth
“Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth had appeared at the RA in 1917…one of four pictures he submitted that year, the others being portraits. The First World War still had a year to run, and the picture may make oblique reference to the crisis. The themes of motherhood, fecundity and regeneration, not to…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849)
“Christ’s mother Mary (modelled by Rosetti’s sister, Christina) is shown here as a girl. She works on an embroidery with her mother (portrayed by Rosetti’s mother, Frances). In the background, Mary’s father is shown pruning a vine. The painting is full of Christian symbolism. The palm branch and thorn on the floor represent Christ. The…
Frank Cadogan Cowper: The Patient Griselda
“The subject is taken from the tenth tale of the tenth day of Boccaccio’s Decameron, a story rendered into Latin by Petrarch and adapted by Chaucer for the ‘Clerk’s Tale’ in the Canterbury Tales. The Marquis of Saluzzo is persuaded by his subjects to marry, and chooses as his wife a humble peasant girl, Griselda….
John William Waterhouse: Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus
“The depiction of this mythic moment is unique within Victorian painting, and possibly within all of British art. Through the late 19th Century, Symbolist artists and writers had grown evermore enthusiastic about Orpheus, the greatest poet and musician in Greek myth, because he, like so many creative individuals, sang the truth and thus aroused resentment….
Frank Cadogan Cowper: The Blue Bird (1918)
“The Blue Bird appeared at the RA in 1918, the last year of the Great War. Military images dominated the exhibition and the picture must have struck an incongruous note amid the portraits of generals, tributes to indomitable Tommies, romanticised accounts of ‘bringing up the guns’, and poignant war memorials…The picture does, however, undoubtedly relate…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Annunciation (c.1849)
“Inspired by the work of early Renaissance artists such as Botticelli (1445-1510) and Fra Angelico (1387-1455), Rossetti sought in this work a radical reinterpretation of the Annunciation. Traditionally the Virgin was depicted in studious contemplation, reading a missal at a prie-dieu; but here Rossetti shows her rising awkwardly from a low bed, as if disturbed…
John William Waterhouse: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
“…the composition’s date of 1909 and its similarity to a number of Waterhouse’s compositions in following years marks it as the first in a series inspired by the story of Persephone—in which the innocent girl, picking flowers on the plain of Enna, is abducted by Pluto; in anguish, her mother, the harvest goddess Demeter, curses…
Cecilia Bartoli: La mort d’Ophélie (Berlioz)
“La mort d’Ophélie (The death of Ophelia) is “a setting of a ballad by Ernest Legouvé, based on Gertrude’s description of Ophelia’s drowning in Act IV of Hamlet. It was originally composed for solo voice and piano in 1842, but in 1848 Berlioz revised it for female choir and orchestra. The verses of Ernest Legouvé…
Hauser: Lascia Ch’io Pianga from Rinaldo (Handel)
“The present lot was executed in Rome where Marie Spartali Stillman lived with her husband William James Stillman (1828-191) who was posted there as a foreign correspondent for The Times between 1889-1896. It is very possible that the sitter in this picture is Bella Middleton the eldest of Marie’s step-daughters, who was present in Rome…
John Everett Millais: Isabella
“‘Isabella’ was one of the first paintings made in the new Pre-Raphaelite style. It was begun shortly after the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, when Millais was only 19. The subject is taken from a poem by John Keats (1795-1821), based on a story by the Italian writer Boccaccio (died 1375). It tells…
John William Waterhouse: Saint Cecilia (1895)
“In Christian iconography, Cecilia is the patron saint of music. The connection to music relates to the early accounts of Cecilia’s life. According to these, Cecilia did not want to hear musical instruments because she wanted to remain pure to be able to hear heavenly music. Saint Cecilia is based on a verse from Alfred…
A Tragic Self-Portrait at Sea: The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown
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Marie Spartali Stillman: The Last Sight of Fiammetta
The present work is the first of Stillman’s based on Rossetti’s translations from Boccaccio, where a sonnet entitled ‘The Last Sight of Fiammetta’ describes what seems to be the death of the beloved: Round her red garland and her golden hairI saw a fire about Fiammetta’s head;Thence to a little cloud I watch’d it fade,Than…
Ford Madox Brown: Work (1865)
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Andrew Lloyd-Webber: A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites
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The Curse of the Lady of Shalott
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John William Waterhouse: Juliet
“Here we see a lovely girl wearing a richly-coloured gown that closely resembles Mariana’s in its cut. Endowed with unusually curly hair (for Waterhouse), Juliet grasps her luxurious blue necklace nervously. She is presented in the full profile perfected by Italian Renaissance artists; for most of the 15th Century, privileged maidens ready to be married…
Leaving Home: Ford Madox Brown’s The Last of England (1855)
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