The lost pre-Raphaelite : the secret life & loves of Robert Bateman /

The lost pre-Raphaelite : the secret life & loves of Robert Bateman /

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Author / Creator:Daly, Nigel.
Imprint:London : Wimington Square Books, an imprint of Bitter Lemon Press, 2014.
Description:355 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Bateman, Robert, -- 1842-1922.
Bateman, Robert, -- 1842-1922.
Pre-Raphaelites -- Biography.
Pre-Raphaelites.
Biography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10085114
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Varying Form of Title:Secret life & loves of Robert Bateman
Secret life and loves of Robert Bateman
ISBN:9781908524386
1908524383
Notes:Includes index.
Summary:When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. A mysterious set of relationships emerged amongst its former owners, revolving round the almost forgotten artist, Robert Bateman, a prominent Pre-Raphaelite and friend of Burne Jones. He was to marry the granddaughter of the Earl of Carlisle, and to be associated with Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone, and other prominent political and artistic figures.0But he had abandoned his life as an artist in mid-career to live as a recluse, and his rich and glamorous wife-to-be had married the local vicar, already in his sixties and shortly to die. The discovery of two clearly autobiographical paintings led to an utterly absorbing forensic investigation into Bateman's life.0The story moves from Staffordshire to Lahore, to Canada, Wyoming, and then, via Buffalo Bill, to Peru and back to England. It leads to the improbable respectability of Imperial Tobacco in Bristol, and then, less respectably, to a car park in Stoke-on-Trent. En route the author pieces together an astonishing and deeply moving story of love and loss, of art and politics, of morality and hypocrisy, of family secrets concealed but never quite completely obscured. The result is a page-turning combination of detective story and tale of human frailty, endeavor, and love. It is also a portrait of a significant artist, a reassessment of whose work is long overdue.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part 1. Lost Among the Ruins
  • 1. Infauation
  • 2. Trial by TV
  • Part 2. The Lost Pre-Raphaelite
  • 3. A Forgotten Figure
  • 4. The Pool of Bethesda
  • 5. A Twilight World
  • 6. A True Victorian?
  • 7. Reading of Love
  • 8. The Big Picture
  • 9. Mandragora
  • 10. Heartbreaks and Miracles
  • 11. Love-Sculpted Towers
  • Part 3. Lost in the Vicarage
  • 12. The Dean's Daughter
  • 13. A Country Parson
  • 14. A Furtive Marriage and a Grand Funeral
  • Part 4. A Lost Love Story
  • 15. Heloise and Abelard
  • 16. Worlds Apart
  • 17. Pictures of Passion
  • 18. A Glamorous Marriage
  • 19. Benthall, A Shared Sanctuary
  • 20. A Country Squire and his Good Lady
  • 21. Forever One
  • Part 5. The Lost Child
  • 22. Last Will and Testament
  • 23. In Search of Henry
  • 24. Revelations
  • 25. Dysfunctional Families
  • 26. Conspiracy of Silence
  • Part 6. Lost and Found
  • 27. Scandalous Relations
  • 28. True Love
  • 29. Mother and Child
  • Postscript
  • Family trees
  • Picture credits
  • Index
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