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 ...

WASHINGTON —Just in time for the spring influx of school trips and Easter vacations, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is hosting two exhibits about the Pre-Raphaelites painters of 19th ...

Natalie Hegert on the real-life women who inspired some of the 19th century’s most enduringly popular art — set to star in July auctions. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith, 1867, watercolor ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. In the mid-19th century, the ...

LONDON — In 2019, museums ostensibly wrote women back into art history. In London we saw Dora Maar (Tate Britain), Lee Krasner (Barbican), and Dorothea Tanning (Tate Modern) all step out from behind ...

Whether you like 19th century painting or not, it’s hard to ignore the Pre-Raphaelites, and it’s even harder to ignore the powerful beauty of their female models and muses – or “Pre-Raphaelite ...

The handful of British artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were “a radical yet backward-looking” bunch, said Jeffry Cudlin in the Washington City Paper. The movement’s major ...

There she is in Order of the Release, 1853 (pictured right), posing as the wife of an imprisoned Jacobite Highlander. I like to imagine this brilliant composition as a reflection of her marriage.

Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...