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Gold, Graft, Gifted and Girl Power. Some more metal point drawings with gold, these by Evelyn De Morgan for

Her contribution to the revival of this technique from its Renaissance forebears has often been overshadowed by Burne-Jones’ art.

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2023-03-06

Snowdrops, daffodils and hyacinths are in bloom in the south of England at the moment and we are looking forward to Spring with Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale’s ‘In the Springtime’, 1901, watercolour We can’t wait till these beautiful bluebells make an appearance.

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2023-02-26

For we are celebrating Fanny Cornforth with a new episode of the , released today. Myself and Alex ( and ) interview about her.

Cornforth depicted here in a variety of guises by Rossetti.

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2023-01-08

For this we look to America and Elizabeth Nourse (1859–1938). In ‘Happy Days’ a working class mother is repairing her child’s clothing.

Nouse was the first American woman to be voted into the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in France.

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2022-08-07

Today’s is dedicated to women’s football, in honour of the Women’s Euros 2022 final later today. (Come on .)

Women’s football was very popular during the First World War, drawing crowds of 53,000 even after the war had ended.

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2022-07-31

In ‘Sir Patrick Spens’, women’s collective experience of watching and yearning, is the theme artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal chose.

I admire Siddal’s genius in evoking this turmoil, in the naive, medieval style that is her signature.

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2022-04-24

‘That out of the Oak Tree Shade
In the day of France's direst dule,
God's hand should send a Maid.’
Joan of Arc, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

For this our theme is Joan of Arc, with art by Swynnerton, Rossetti, Millais and Fortescue-Brickdale.

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2022-01-30

Meticulous microcosms: the magnificent work of Scottish painter Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn (1823-1909) for this 1 of the most popular & prolific illustrators & friend of Ruskin & Landseer; thanks to our friends for bringing her to our attention!

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2021-10-17

Celebrating the wondrous work of Beatrix Potter this 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".

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2021-09-05

Enigmatic images by English illustrator & children's author Margaret Winifred Tarrant (1888 –1959) for this week's The illustrations which made her reputation at only 20 years of age were for Charles Kingsley's 'The Water Babies' in 1908.

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2021-08-29

Continuing our series on late Victorian/Edwardian women illustrators for Today we enter the magical world of Helen Mary Jacobs (1888-1970) and her exquisitely detailed fairy paintings.

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2021-08-15

Celebrating the highly talented illustrator Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973) this Although very commercial now Barker's meticulous depictions of flowers surely deserve a second look, aligning with PRB attention to detail & the legacy of Victorian Fairy Painting.

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2021-07-04

Celebrating last night's fabulous Full Moon with 'Luna' by Evelyn de Morgan (1885 ) for this week's

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2021-02-28

Beautiful images of physical & spiritual Love❤️in a mixture of media (oil, embroidery, illumination) by incredible Arts & Crafts genius Phoebe Anna Traquair for and

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2021-02-14

Evelyn De Morgan's absolutely stunning study of a female head for the figure of Winter from 'The Cadence of Autumn' and the painting itself (1905, Wightwick Manor, ) for this week's rather belated

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2020-12-21

The magical & intensely detailed book illustrations of Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916) for this week's Born Eleanor Gordon with a family seat at Ellon Castle, Aberdeenshire, Boyle's watercolours reveal a reverence for nature as well as a fantastical imagination.

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2020-11-08

'Ventnor, Isle of Wight' (1856, Maas Gall) & 'Pear' ( ) by artist & activist Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891) for Bodichon befriended Siddal & Rossetti in Hastings, making this sketch of the former in 1854 (Mark Samuel Lasner Coll Delaware)

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2020-10-26

Evelyn de Morgan's lyrical 'Cadence of Autumn' for Plus a sumptuous study of a female head for the seated figure on the right (1905, ). The optimism of Spring & the 2 figures representing Summer changes to melancholy with Autumn & Winter on the left.

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2020-10-18

Happy Birthday to marvellous & magical Evelyn de Morgan (nee Pickering) born in 1855
Her mythical, spiritual, allegorical paintings are simply out of this world. An amazing draughtswoman & "pioneering professional female artist" (De Morgan Fdn)

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2020-08-30

Paintings of hope this from artist & Spiritualist Evelyn de Morgan whose soul passed on yesterday's date in 1919. Rainbows feature heavily in her powerful iconography
The Light Shineth...
Daughters of the Mist
Sunbeam & Summer Shower
(1900-1919)

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2020-05-03