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Celebrating the wondrous work of Beatrix Potter this #SisterhoodSunday. Expert illustrator (with PRB attention to detail), conservationist & mycologist.
The Potters were close friends with Millais who told a young Beatrix :"plenty of people can 'draw', but you have INSPIRATION".
'The Ladies Talbot' (1862 priv.coll) for WattsOnWednesday. Lady Constance Lothian (sitting) with sisters Gertrude (left) & Adelaide (centre).
There is lyrical, transient qualify comparable to to Millais's 'Autumn Leaves' with its cascading blooms & horse chestnut in full leaf.
Enigmatic images by English illustrator & children's author Margaret Winifred Tarrant (1888 –1959) for this week's #SisterhoodSunday. The illustrations which made her reputation at only 20 years of age were for Charles Kingsley's 'The Water Babies' in 1908.
Unfortunately we're having a few technical hitches on the PRS website and it is offline but we hope to be back online very soon! Many thanks for your patience🙂
This week's #ThursdayTheme is Night & Sleep, with enigmatic contributions from Evelyn de Morgan (1878 @DeMorganF), Simeon Solomon (1894 @Tate, 1892 private collection) & Edward Robert Hughes 91912 @BM_AG)
This week perhaps the most famous of all Victorian Ophelias for #TearsOnTuesday
Indeed just typing 'Millais' into Google, the word Ophelia comes up 1st choice! (1852 @Tate & @BMAGimages)
'When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide'
Continuing our series on late Victorian/Edwardian women illustrators for #SisterhoodSunday. Today we enter the magical world of Helen Mary Jacobs (1888-1970) and her exquisitely detailed fairy paintings.
This week's #ThursdayTheme: Rossetti, Women & Flowers- such sumptuous choice! A Vision of Fiammetta, Lady Lilith & La Ghirlandata. Don't forget our online talk this Sat on floral symbolism in Beata Beatrix with Dr Julie Whyman @FlowersPre. For tickets see: https://t.co/jzW610riJx
We can feel a spell brewing! Contemplations & concoctions with J.W.Waterhouse's beautiful 'Circe' and 'The Sorceress' (1911, private collections) for this week's #MagicMonday
Happy Birthday to Elizabeth Siddall! Born #OTD in 1829. Herewith her arresting 'Self-Portrait' (1854), 'Sir Patrick Spens' (1856) 'Lady Clare' (1857) and 'The Lady of Shalott' (1850s)