Pre-Raphaelite sisters /

Pre-Raphaelite sisters /

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Author / Creator:	Marsh, Jan, 1942- author.
Imprint:	London, England : National Portrait Gallery Publications, [2019] ©2019
Description:	207 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 29 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Pre-Raphaelites -- Exhibitions. Pre-Raphaelites -- Criticism and interpretation. Pre-Raphaelites -- Themes, motives. Pre-Raphaelites -- Relations with women -- Exhibitions. Women in art -- Exhibitions. Figurative painting, English -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. Pre-Raphaelites. Pre-Raphaelites -- Relations with women. Women in art. Exhibition catalogs. Essays. Portraits. Illustrated works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11950730

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Other authors / contributors:	Funnell, Peter, 1956- author. Gere, Charlotte, author. Nunn, Pamela Gerrish, author. Smith, Alison, 1962- author. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
ISBN:	1855147270 9781855147270 1855147920 9781855147928
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. "Pre-Raphaelite Sisters" : October 17, 2019-January 26, 2020, National Portrait Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom. Text in English.
Summary:	When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (the 'PRB') exhibited their first works in 1849 it heralded a revolution in British art. Styling themselves the "Young Painters of England", this group of young men aimed to overturn stale Victorian artistic conventions and challenge the previous generation with their startling colours and compositions. Think of the images created by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others in their circle, however, and it is not men but pale-faced young women with lustrous, tumbling locks that spring to mind, gazing soulfully from the picture frame or in dramatic scenes painted in glowing colours. Who were these women? What is known of their lives and their roles in a movement that, in successive phases, spanned over half a century? Some were models, plucked from obscurity to pose for figures in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, whileothers were sisters, wives, daughters and friends of the artists. Several were artists themselves, with aspirations to match those of the men, sharing the same artistic and social networks yet condemned by their gender to occupy a separate sphere. Others inhabited and sustained a male-dominated art world as partners in production, maintaining households and studios and socialising with patrons. Some were skilled in the arts of interior decoration, dressmaking, embroidery, jewellery-making -the fine crafts that formed a supportive tier for the "higher" arts of painting and sculpture. And although their backgrounds and life-experiences certainly varied widely, all were engaged in creating Pre-Raphaelite art.00Exhibition: The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (17.10.2019-06.01.2020).

Table of Contents:

Director's Foreword
Introduction
Chronology
Pre-Raphaelite Models / Jan Marsh
Elizabeth Siddal
Christina Rossetti
Effie Gray Millais
Brotherhoods & Artistic Masculinities / Peter Funnell
Annie Miller
Fanny Cornworth
Joanna Boyce Wells
Beyond the Parlour / Pamela Gerrish Nunn
Fanny Eaton
Jane Morris
Georgiana Burne-Jones
Model Wives & Mistresses / Charlotte Gere
Maria Zambaco
Marie Spartali Stillman
Evelyn De Morgan
The Sisterhood & its Afterlife / Alison Smith.