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Pre-Raphaelite sisters /

When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (the 'PRB') exhibited their first works in 1849, it heralded a revolution in British art. Styling themselves the "Young Painters of England," this group of young men aimed to overturn stale Victorian artistic conventions and challenge the previ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marsh, Jan, 1942- (Author), Funnell, Peter, 1956- (Author), Gere, Charlotte (Author), Nunn, Pamela Gerrish (Author), Smith, Alison, 1962 May 30- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : National Portrait Gallery Publications, [2019].
Subjects:
Pre-Raphaelites > Exhibitions.
Pre-Raphaelites > Criticism and interpretation.
Pre-Raphaelites > Themes, motives.
Pre-Raphaelites > Relations with women > Exhibitions.
Women in art > Exhibitions.
Figurative painting, English > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • Pre-Raphaelite Models / Jan Marsh
  • Elizabeth Siddal
  • Christina Rossetti
  • Effie Gray Millais
  • Brotherhoods & Artistic Masculinities / Peter Funnell
  • Annie Miller
  • Fanny Cornworth
  • Joanna Boyce Wells
  • Beyond the Parlour / Pamela Gerrish Nunn
  • Fanny Eaton
  • Jane Morris
  • Georgiana Burne-Jones
  • Model Wives & Mistresses / Charlotte Gere
  • Maria Zambaco
  • Marie Spartali Stillman
  • Evelyn De Morgan
  • The Sisterhood & its Afterlife / Alison Smith.