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You don't *have* to follow the rules of a paint-by-numbers

In his 'Schatzbehalter', a German incunabula with 96 woodcuts, Stephan Fridolin gave instructions on how the illustrations should be coloured - but the workshops often ignored them!

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2022-07-23

'Tis the season to be May': Rossetti's atmospheric chalk study of May Morris (aged 10 in 1872, private collection) and Frederick Sandy's opulent depiction of 'May Margaret' (1866 ) for this week's

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2022-05-06

Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Phoebe Anna Traquair's sensual, spiritual & symbolic 'Love's Testament' (oil on canvas, 1898, Lloyd Webber Collection) for the day of the week dedicated to devotion and this week's

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2022-04-29

Last night was the Eve of St Agnes. Celebrating the Keats poem for with Elizabeth Siddal, Millais, Holman Hunt & Arthur Hughes. Watch the recording of Gender & Space in Pre-Raphaelite paintings of ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ by here: https://t.co/FAtYC4D8Pp

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2022-01-21

Scottish Symbolist John Duncan's (1866-1945) icy palette of colours (frequently painted in tempera) often evokes a crisp, chilly day by the coast: today's is 'The Turn of The Tide' (c.1919, The Fleming Collection, London)

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2022-01-07

An apple a day (or 4!) 'A Merciless Beauty' by Frank Cadogan Cowper (1906) for this week's accompanied by lines from Chaucer's Rondel of same name: 'Your yen two wol slee me sodenly; I may the beautee of hem not sustene,
So woundeth hit throughout my herte kene'

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2021-12-03

'The Angel of the Sea' (1906, private collection) by Edward Reginald Frampton (1872-1923) for this week's More Frampton to follow in the following weeks (#FramptonFridays!)

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2021-07-09

Arguably one of the most unnerving representations of Ophelia for this week's by George Frederic Watts (1875-80, Watts Gallery, Artists' Village).

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2021-06-18

Our is one from our Reserve Collection - 'Lighthouse and two sailing ships' (n.d.) by Alfred Wallis. ⛵✨

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2021-02-13

Having binged the whole of (definitely not in one sitting... 🙃) lockdown suddenly seems like the perfect opportunity to learn

In our illustration, Shakespeare's characters dispute the rules

We haven't quite worked out who's right yet...

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2020-11-21

Celebrating the work of Simeon Solomon this who died OTD in 1905. '4 Seasons' & 'Day & Night' (c1877 priv.coll). The PRS Autumn journal is a special issue on Solomon guest-edited by Dr Carolyn Conroy & Dr Roberto C Ferrari & should be out for members mid October!

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2020-08-14

Our is 'P&O ship', n.d. by Alfred Wallis. Wallis, a fisherman living in St Ives, turned to painting after his wife died in 1922. ⚓

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2020-08-08

Feeling happy, healthy and revitalised after a jam-packed with , we're dancing into the weekend like 💃

A sashay to the snack cupboard can also be part of getting right?

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2020-06-13

Starting a new series of the first of which is 'The Mirror of Venus' by Burne-Jones (1875, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum) with all of its serene, glassy and ethereal beauty. Alas a difficult one to recreate during times of social distancing! ;-)

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2020-04-17

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

This print was commissioned by the Artists International Association to celebrate the Festival of Britain 1951. Inspired by the prevalence of poultry in post-war Britain, Rothenstein comments on the friction between the rural and the urban.

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2020-04-03

What are you doing on your Friday afternoon if you're not reading 🤔

https://t.co/LwBOKANVQG

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2017-08-11