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A sweet dream... or a beautiful nightmare? You can decide where you’ll be spoilt for choice interpreting their Dreams & Nightmares exhibition

Edward Byrne-Jones
Cupid delivering Psyche, 1867
Watercolour, bodycolour, chalk & oil pastel on paper

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2019-11-07

''À Bientôt'' by Valentine Cameron Prinsep.

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2019-11-05

According to Sarah she remembered having her hair swiped or accidentally flicked resulting in her pins coming loose and her copper gold locks tumbling down. Sarah becomes Fanny @ https://t.co/tFm6yshGeS

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2019-11-05

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (1915) by J.W. Waterhouse (UK, 1849–1917). Our lady is confined in her tower, viewing the world outside only through reflections in the mirror. Note the loom shuttles look like boats, a foreshadowing of her watery death.

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2019-10-30

Feeling very inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition and wondering who my next sister should be. I have started a Jane Avril/ Toulouse Lautrec figure, but will be making more at https://t.co/XOm4MP1HYf

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2019-10-26

We fans are a bit spoilt at the moment. Another glorious and free! exhibition is open in Southampton with many favourites and plenty of unknown (to me) gems.

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2019-10-19

Fitting Alexa Wilding into the narrative and why she so often gets forgotten https://t.co/WMY2Isi8mG

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2019-10-17

'Miranda, The Tempest' - John William Waterhouse, 1916.

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2019-10-15

Finally, Fanny Cornforth spent the last years of her life confined to Graylingwell Asylum in West Sussex https://t.co/iIPfnEAqXj Mental health is something that touches all of us, we are all in this together and no-one is ever alone

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2019-10-10

Edgar Allan Poe died 1849. He was one of several American authors on the PRB's 'list of Immortals'. His poems inspired early drawings by DG Rossetti, including this in , Angel Footfalls, 1847, illustrating The Raven

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2019-10-07

Sir Patrick Spens by Elizabeth Siddall, 1856
In true Pre-Raphaelite fashion, Siddall was a poet painting a poem (Sir Patrick Spens is a traditional Scottish ballad)

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2019-10-05

The Greek goddess and witch Circe, painted by John William Waterhouse.

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2019-09-25

John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)

The Bouquet, n.d

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2019-09-11

Victorian theologian, reformer & founder of London Working Men's College F.D. Maurice was born in 1805. He is depicted alongside Carlyle as one of the brainworkers in Ford Madox Brown's brilliant painting Work (1852-65).

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2019-08-29

Indulging my obsession with the
today. Use to submerse myself in culture at Nice to spend some time reminiscing & studying brush strokes

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2019-08-11