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Charles Algernon Swinburne was born #OTD in 1837. Poet, playwright, novelist, & critic with often taboo subject matter, Swinburne also lived with Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Tudor House, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Images: Rossetti, William Bell Scott & Beerbohm. Happy Birthday CAS! 📖
Rossettian Revelation! It's all about the Rossetti Family for this week's #WednesdayWonder as an exciting new exhibition opens tomorrow @Tate Britain devoted to the radical Rossetti generation! Dante Gabriel, Christina & Elizabeth (née Siddal) all featured. On till 24th September
Kate Greenway’s illustrations for this #StudySaturday.
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was an artist and writer. At 12 she enrolled at the Finsbury School of Art, followed by the National Art Training School in South Kensington from 1865, and attended the Slade School.
The sunshine yellow of daffodils and the optimism of Spring arriving for this #FeelingsFriday.
🖼️ ‘Echo and Narcissus’, John William Waterhouse.
🖼️ ‘Still Life of Daffodils in a Blue and White Vase’, Lily Yorke.
🖼️ ‘Fresh Flowers from the Country’, Valentine Cameron Prinsep.
Marie Spartali landscapes for today’s post. ‘The Old Barn, Arreton, Isle of Wight’ went to auction @bonhams1793 yesterday, we hope a public gallery bought it.
In our latest @PreRaphPodcast; @HannahRSquire and @ArtforAllbyAll discuss the lack of women artists work in museums.
The original Drag Queens and Kings, I remember seeing ‘As You Like It’ as a teenager and loving this pastoral comedy.
To celebrate #WorldTheatreDay are three representations of Rosalind (Ganymede) from Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’.
A Pre-Raphaelite procession for the clocks leaping forward in the UK today, with Walter Crane’s ‘The Advent of Spring’, 1873.
Nocturnal happenings for this #StudySaturday, drawings by Simeon Solomon. These artworks represent non-biblical, subjects after dark, and were all created in the mid 1850s. ‘The Haunted House’ and ‘Christabel’ illustrate poems by Thomas Hood and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. …
Gold, Graft, Gifted and Girl Power. Some more metal point drawings with gold, these by Evelyn De Morgan for #SisterhoodSunday.
Her contribution to the revival of this technique from its Renaissance forebears has often been overshadowed by Burne-Jones’ art.
When you want to be left alone and unbothered #FeelingsFriday.
‘Study for St Dorothea and Her Two Sisters Refusing to Worship the Idol’, Joseph Edward Southall, 1901.
‘Study of a Female Head’, Edward Burne-Jones, 1889.
‘Ricorditi Di Me Che Son La Pia’, D.G.Rossetti, 1868.