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Studies, artists preliminary sketches, are fascinating for discovering an artist's process. Such beautiful pieces of art in their own right, we are dedicating Saturdays as #StudySaturdays.
Our first is this oil sketch by Edward Burne-Jones, from the Briar Rose series, @V_and_A.
Calamitous Cassandra: Trojan Priestess of Apollo cursed to utter true prophecies (including the Fall of Troy), but never to be believed. This week's #TuesdayTale features howling 2 depictions by Frederick Sandys (1860s) plus Evelyn de Morgan (1898 @DeMorganF) & Burne-Jones (1870)
‘No one but a Pre-Raphaelite could have given to that pretty pouting mouth the hard and almost wicked look it had in the portrait.’ Lady Audley’s Secret, 1862.
This Rossetti artwork has been compared to Braddon’s description,the second image is the original illustration. 2/2
February is LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK, so today we dedicate as #SapphicSaturday.
Evelyn De Morgan often represented her muse, Jane Hales, nude and this enduring celebration of the naked female form by a female artist, has lead to this art being viewed through a queer lens.
Pug & A Good Book! Canine companionship for this week's #ThursdayTheme featuring paintings by Charles Burton Barber, James Tissot, William Holman Hunt and Briton Riviere 🐕🐩🐶
Discover Dante Gabriel Rossetti's intense and beautiful portraits with the Holburne Museum's Assistant Curator Sylvie Broussine this Friday at midday, courtesy of our friends at the @DeMorganF For tickets please see: https://t.co/xNXqC6gFZV
And here also are the runners up in The PRS Painting Competition 2021! Well Done Beth Tang Soo Ping @Theartjoydesign with 'The Three Elements' https://t.co/KbRCVY8Vkf and Michael Swihura @swibot with 'Girl'. See this superb artwork in the Summer issue of the PRS Review!🎨
Congratulations to the winners of the PRS 2021 Painting Competiton! @petermitche11 'Sing Robin Sing', @Marinaruschka 'Winter', Johanna Fößl @_thepictureshow 'I will give to you my summer wine' & Robby Pitts 'The Bower Meadow'. All superb artwork will feature in our Spring issue🎨
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/ And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Helen of Troy for this week's #TuesdayTale by Rossetti, Sandys, De Morgan & Poynter (model: Lillie Langtry) Not too sure about ship launching by Sandys' huffy Helen with her petulant pout!
Incredible Incantations: This week's #MagicMonday features a selection of spellbinding Sorceresses:
The Magic Circle & Circe by J.W.Waterhouse (1886 @Tate, 1891 Gall Oldham), Medea by Valentine Prinsep (1880 Southwark Coll) & Morgan Le Fay by Frederick Sandys (1864 @BMAGimages)