Henry Wallis, “Chatterton” (c. 1855–56), oil on canvas, 62.2 x 93.3 cm (24 1/2 x 36 3/4 in), Tate Gallery, London (all images courtesy the National Gallery of Art) In its first iteration in London, ...

It is difficult to think of the Pre-Raphaelites’ work as anything other than decorative and pretty, let alone avant-garde. Google it and you’ll come up with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s bored pale-faced ...

The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...

The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...

LONDON — In 2019, museums ostensibly wrote women back into art history. In London we saw Dora Maar (Tate Britain), Lee Krasner (Barbican), and Dorothea Tanning (Tate Modern) all step out from behind ...

Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Joseph Jacobs. Author of (SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES.) This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...

Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain, London. Until 24 February 2019. Extraordinary advances in science, technology and industry shaped the Victorian age; alongside that grew a new experimentalism in ...

Rebelling against the conservative standards of the British Royal Academy, the art Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848 with the aim of creating a new British art that sought inspiration ...

There are at least two ways to look at the mid-19th century group of British artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: as upstarts riding a wave of revolutionary ideas and new ways of seeing…or ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Victorian art is making a comeback in London this summer with a major exhibition, and the biggest retrospective to date, of works by John William Waterhouse, who died in 1917.