Ophelia was a popular subject for the PRB & Waterhouse painted the doomed maiden at least three times - each stunning. Ophelia (1910), Sketch of Circe (c1911-14), The Charmer (1911) & A Song of Springtime (1913)

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His landscapes are pure PRB & have a mystical romantic quality against which he placed his ideal girl & ideal man. A Hamadryad (1893), A Naiad (1893) & Study for La Belle Dame sans Merci (c1893)

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James Collinson died in 1881
1 of the original 7 PRB members, he was attracted to the devotional & high church aspects of Pre-Raphaelitism
One time fiancé of Christina Rossetti, he resigned from the Brotherhood after the scandal over Millais's Christ in House of His Parents

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Dunfermline-born Sir Joseph Noel Paton was born in 1821. Historical, allegorical & superb fairy painter, he was a close friend of Millais but turned down an invite to join the PRB.
Featured: The Bluidie Tryst 1855, Hesperus 1857 & The Fairy Raid (det) 1867 (Glasgow Museums)

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Celebrating the recent birthdays of Rosa Brett & her brother John (7 & 8th Dec) painters of meticulous PRB accuracy.
Rosa, who also painted under pseudonym 'Rosarius', is omitted from the current NPG exhibition, a shame as she is undoubtedly a significant 'Pre-Raphaelite Sister'

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Sculptor, illustrator, poet & original member of the PRB Thomas Woolner died in 1892. Attached Woolner's portrait by DGR, his bust of PRB patron Thomas Coombe (Ashmolean), a frontispiece illustration & Holman Hunt's illustration to Woolner's poem 'My Beautiful Lady' (1850)

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The PRS Tweeter was in Birmingham at the weekend, marvelling over the very splendid collection at Birmingham Art Gallery & Museum
Although some PRB paintings are currently on tour, the following were on display & the fourth image is a detail for this week's

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"The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella (PRB), announced on social media that he had censored copies of the comic book "Avengers - The Children's Crusade," exhibited at the Book Biennial."

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Romantic German painter Caspar David Friedrich was born in 1774. Although too early too be a Pre-Raphaelite, his reverence for Nature, evident in his stunning & often haunting woodland & alpine landscapes, & attention to detail, echo that of the PRB

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sister and her younger brother of a different mother (gonna draw more sangcheng soon nhs is pulling string in my heart (and prb jc 🌝

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ふと自分のラフフォルダあさってたら
なんか好みのデザインのキャラが出てきたのでPRB卓でNPCとして使おうと思います
つきましては名前を募集したく(

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founding member William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). Here is an exquisite self-portrait from 1867 in

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"Morning"—alluring fairy-painting version of Venus at Dawn + PRB detail, John Simmons 1862 https://t.co/sgUuiMITls

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