Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London explores 12 women’s contributions to the male-dominated artistic circle Nadine Daher and Lily Katzman The women of the Pre-Raphaelite ...

While the camera has made some notable advancements in the past 150 years, the disheveled look of bohemians has remained constant: unkempt hair, torn clothing and lips that rarely smile. But Kate Moss ...

In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...

This exhibition makes a strong case that the Pre-Raphaelites offered much more than a lot of pretty faces. The paintings are organized mostly thematically, with hints toward chronological ordering as ...

On a wall among the hushed halls of a late medieval Dominican convent in Forlì, near Bologna, you will find the image of a group of four barefoot and beautiful young women eternally gathering pebbles ...

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 ...

The pre-Raphaelite movement in America: an introduction -- The British brotherhood -- Buchanan Read and the Rossettis -- William J. Stillman: "The American pre-Raphaelite" -- The Crayon: the first ...

The English don’t really like art,” a celebrated (English) abstract sculptor told me, some time ago. “We like literature and nature—gardens and landscape. That’s why we admire all those artists who go ...

In 1848, there was only one clique to be in. And any artist worth their salt stuck outside the sacred circle would look on in envy at those admitted to the inner sanctum. The Pre-Raphaelite ...

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...