The Google Doodle for November 18 honors Fanny Eaton, a muse to the Pre-Raphaelites who helped redefine Victorian standards of beauty. Born in Jamaica on June 23, 1835, Eaton moved to London in the ...

Oscar Gustav Rejlander’s double self-portrait, where on the left he wears his Artists Rifles uniform (1872-73) (via Wikimedia) When Italian revolutionaries made an assassination attempt on Napoleon ...

"The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists" : April 14-July 21, 2019, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, United States Bringing together insights from a distinguished ...

An artist can reveal the true personality of their sitter through a drawing. The first section of the Ashmolean’s exhibition includes intimate portraits of the group’s family, patrons and friends; it ...

Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ painting The Blind Girl (1854–56) shows two girls sitting in a bright green meadow with a double rainbow in the background. While the younger girl stares ...

Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to Jamaican-British artist muse Fanny Eaton. During the 1860s, Eaton modelled for a number of notable painters and has been credited with challenging Victorian ...

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

Rebelling against the conservative standards of the British Royal Academy, the art Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848 with the aim of creating a new British art that sought inspiration ...

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...

The English don’t really like art,” a celebrated (English) abstract sculptor told me, some time ago. “We like literature and nature—gardens and landscape. That’s why we admire all those artists who go ...