Four more members also
joined to form a seven-strong Brotherhood. These
were William Michael Rossetti (Dante Gabriel Rossetti's
brother and a critic), Thomas Woolner (critic),
James Collinson (painter) and Frederic George Stephens
(critic). Ford Madox Brown was invited to join,
but preferred to remain independent. He nevertheless
remained close to the group. Some other young painters
and sculptors were also close associates, including
Charles Allston Collins, Thomas Tupper and Alexander
Munro. They kept the existence of the Brotherhood
secret from members of the Royal Academy.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (or PRB)
was a 19th century group of rebellious young artists
who, disillusioned with the artistic climate of their
day, sought to rediscover the purity of art by creating
an entirely new artistic style that drew upon the middle
ages, the bible, classical mythology and nature for
inspiration, emulating the work of the great Italian
artists before Raphael (hence their name: pre-Raphaelite).
The PRB only lasted for five or so years, but it served
to inspire many other painters such as Lawrence Alma-Tadema
and John William Waterhouse throughout the rest of the
19th century and into the early 20th century. Its inception
was in 1848, there was revival in the 1880s and it concluded
in the early 1920s. Some of the later artists (eg Waterhouse,
Burne-Jones, Alma-Tadema) may be more accurately classified
as belonging to the aesthetic, symbolist or classical
movements rather than to Pre-Raphaelitism.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
James Collinson (painter) William Holman Hunt (painter)
John Everett Millais (painter) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(painter, poet)
William Michael Rossetti (critic)
Frederic George Stephens (critic)
Thomas Woolner (sculptor, poet)
Associated artists and figures Ford Madox Brown (painter,
designer) Edward Burne-Jones
(painter, designer)
Walter Howell Deverell (painter)
Charles Allston Collins (painter) Arthur Hughes (painter,
book illustrator) Jane Morris (artist's model)
May Morris (embroideress and designer) William Morris (designer,
writer)
Christina Rossetti (poet, sister of Dante Rossetti)
John Ruskin (critic)
Elizabeth Siddal (painter, poet and artist's model)
Simeon Solomon (painter)
Algernon Swinburne (poet)
A number of the out of print Pre-Raphaelite
books have become quite desired as you will see from some
of the prices of the books. Here are just a few of them.
The
Pre-Raphaelites by Inga Bryden – Hardcover:
1408 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 24,
1998)
Lots of hard research provides a little information on
this painter. Most of the information centers around the
paintings, and sketches themselves , as well of the criticism
of his art. This book contains 160 + beautiful , high
quality images (including one of J.W. Godward as a child).
Dante
Gabriel Rossetti was the man behind the Pre-Raphaelite
Movement. Ford Madox Brown took this talented young man
in 1848 as his pupil. This started their lifelong friendship,
out of which the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was born.
Rossetti was the 'poetic inspiration' behind the group
who, besides being a painter, designed stained glass windows,
made book illustrations, and translated poetry from Italian
into English.
A cofounder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti (1828-1882) has become well known to many through the
widespread reproduction of his work on posters, cards, and prints.
This sumptuous survey of his colorful, romantic art includes
major works from all periods of his life in every media including
watercolors from the 1850s; paintings of the female figure from
1859 on; representations of artists and their models; studies
of Elizabeth Siddall, his wife; late paintings on themes from
Dante and the Arthurian legends; the monumental decorative projects
at Llandaff Cathedral and at the Oxford Union; and his contributions
to the decorative arts (book bindings and illustrations, stained
glass, furniture, and picture frames).
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery
in Liverpool and the Van Gogh Museum, the book complements recent
scholarship and will stimulate further research on Rossetti.
The book and exhibition mark a landmark in Rossetti studies,
providing an unprecedented opportunity to view the entire range
of his achievement. The contributors include Edwin Becker, exhibition
curator at the Van Gogh Museum; Liz Prettejohn, Professor of
Art History at Plymouth University; and Julian Treuherz of the
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. 330 illustrations,
130 in color.
Resurrecting Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a major literary figure
and visual artist of the second half of the nineteenth century,
this book is a conscious reaction to the last sixty years of
literary criticism - in which Rossetti's work has been diminished
and downplayed. McGann asserts the enormity of Rossetti's accomplishment
by pointing out that Rossetti was the central artistic and intellectual
figure of his generation, whose influence extended from Swinburne
to Wilde to Yeats of Pound. McGann ultimately contends that
Rosetti was the major conceptual artist of his generation, whose
work prefigured many of the major aesthetic shifts of the twentieth
century.
Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists by Jan Marsh, Pamela
Gerrish Nunn, Manchester City Art Gallery – Paperback,
160 pages (April 1, 1999) Thames & Hudson
The work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers
is enduringly popular and correspondingly familiar to a wide
public. Works by women artists within the Pre-Raphaelite style
have, however, largely been forgotten and ignored in the history
of the movement. This book, published to accompany an exhibition
in Manchester, England, brings together paintings, drawings,
photographs, and other works that women contributed to the Pre-Raphaelite
movement. Many are reproduced and documented here for the first
time. Spanning three generations from the 1840s to the early
1900s, the artists include Barbara Bodichon, Anna Howitt, Rosa
Brett, Anna Blunden, Jane Benham Hay, Joanna Boyce, Elizabeth
Siddal, Rebecca Solomon, Emma Sandys, Julia Margaret Cameron,
Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown, Marie Spartali Stillman, Maria
Zambaco, Francesca Alexander, Evelyn De Morgan, Kate Bunce,
Marianne Stokes, Christina Herringham, and Eleanor Fortescue
Brickdale. Their works demonstrate that Pre-Raphaelitism is
a broader historical movement than has previously been recognized
and that women were active in all its phases. Their re-inclusion
in Pre-Raphaelite history will redefine its scope, concerns,
and achievements, as well as restore a wealth of neglected works
to public attention.
Dante
Gabriel Rossetti by Alicia Craig Faxon – Hardcover,
256 pages Reissue edition (September 1994) Abbeville Press,
Inc.
Publishers Weekly: "In this gorgeously illustrated biographical-critical
study, Faxon proves herself an astute guide to Rossetti's lush
pictures."
Rossetti and His Circle by Elizabeth Prettejohn
– Paperback, 80 pages (March 1998) Stewart Tabori & Chang
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house in Chelsea was a Bohemian enclave
in Victorian London, the social centre for such rebels as the
visionary painter Edward Burne-Jones, the socialist William
Morris, the aesthete James McNeill Whistler, and the scandalous
poet Charles Swinburne. The rumours it aroused mixed fact and
fiction to tell of love affairs between artists and models,
of nocturnal rambles and drunken poetry recitations, of the
house's collection of Oriental china, medieval musical instruments
and exotic animals. But fact or fantasy, the circle's unconventional
image was inseparable from their artistic experiments. This
book offers new perspectives on the sensual depictions of women,
the use of intense color and exotic accessories to heighten
sensory experience, the overtones of spirituality and mysticism
in the art of Rossetti and his circle. Through their paintings,
Rossetti and his friends transformed Bohemian life into a religion
of beauty, leading the way toward the Symbolist art of the late
nineteenth century. 60 illustrations, 40 in color.
Poet and painter, founder and acknowledged leader of the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) has beguiled
and intrigued for more than a century with his turbulent and
romantic imagery. This beautifully illustrated book analyzes
the life and career of this influential English painter. 63
illustrations, 53 in color.
Frederic Lord Leighton
(1830–1896)
Frederick
Lord Leighton was never a member of the Pre-Raphaelites,
yet was he friends with many of them, and there was close
link between his Aesthetic Classicism (Victorian Classical
painting) and the Pre-Raphaelite style.
This original collection of writings reinterprets the art of
Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), challenging the view that limits
him to the category of 'Victorian artist' and revealing his
broader significance in the history of modern art. The book
is the first to extend the discussion of Leighton beyond his
life and works to address such current concerns as gender and
sexuality, the artist's identity and self-positioning, and Leighton's
position in relation to Aestheticism and Modernism.
Lord Leighton by Russell Ash – Paperback (March
1998) Trafalgar Square
A splendid illustrated monograph on the career and major work
of the towering Victorian artist Sir Frederic Leighton. Now
in paperback, featuring 55 color reproductions. For more than
a quarter of a century, Frederic Leighton (1830-96) dominated
the Victorian art world. His paintings, ranging across striking
and complex historical, literary, and mythological themes, were
among the best known of his age. This sumptuous appraisal considers
Leighton's life, his influences, and the intelligence and technical
virtuosity that distinguish his work. His rise to fame is explored
via his principal works, from his controversial nudes to his
monumental murals.
Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist
by Frederic Leighton Leighton of Stretton (Editor), Christopher
Newall, Richard Ormond, Benedict Read, Stephen Jones –
Hardcover, Published by Harry N Abrams, 1996
Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), the eminent Victorian painter
and sculptor, was the first president of the Royal Academy and
the first artist made a lord. Now, to commemorate the 100th
anniversary of his death, the Royal Academy will hold a major
exhibition, to which this book serves as a catalogue. Included
are 128 color plates, additional illustrations, and never-before-seen
photographs.
The Art of Lord Leighton by Christopher Newall –
Paperback, 144 pages Reprint edition (October 1993) Phaidon
Press Inc.
Leighton was among the most successful British painters of the
Victorian artistic renaissance. He created the grandest and
most elaborate figurative paintings, covering a wide range of
historic and literary subjects. Victorian soap opera. Annotation
copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
A splendid illustrated monograph on the career and major work
of the towering Victorian artist Sir Frederic Leighton. Now
in paperback, featuring 55 color reproductions.
Sir
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)
The
Dutch-born Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a great Anglophile,
who became one of the best known Victorian Classical Painters,
but was never a member of the Pre-Raphaelites. He was
knighted on Queen Victoria's 80th birthday in 1899. He
painted beautiful people in classical settings, preferable
in ancient Egypt and Rome, men and women posing against
white marble in dazzling sunlight.
Lawrence
Alma-Tadema by Edmund Swinglehurst, Lawrence Alma-Tadema
– Hardcover, 144 pages (August 1, 2001)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born in the Netherlands but spent most
of his adult life in England, becoming a member of the Royal
Academy and later gaining a knighthood. He was the quintessential
Classicist painter, taking many of his themes from Greek and
Roman Mythology. His work has a rich dream-like quality which
is well illustrated in this book.
Reader review: So that you willunderstand my perspective,
I am a professor and a painter mostly of large scale, representational
figures, so I buy anything to do with artists who specialize
in the figure. In Russel Ash's book, the reproductions were
large and fairly clearly reproduced. I enjoy the art of the
late 19th and early twentieth century and the detailed realism
of Tadema's female figures was, though academic in development,
fun to see. Of that era I prefer Waterhouse and others, whose
sense of color and less passive work is more powerful and deep,
but if you like figure paintings especially of "Victorians
in toga's" as one critic of his day describes Alma-Tadema's
work, then you will love the large format reproductions. The
book is lavishly adorned with semi-nude, sleepy-eyed, languid,
supple, neo-classical women and a few men, all painted in the
always safe, pastellish colors of the time. The women are engaged
in mostly pastoral time passing non-events. "The Roses
of Heliogabllus", with it's profusion of rose petals was
easily the most colorfully of the reproductions, and a large
composition of "Joseph Overseer..." as the most powerful
of his offerings. The bio of Alma-Tadema was interesting enough
to make me want to know more. If you are an art lover, a collector
of large format books of painters, even the 19th cnetury academic
styles, this is a good one for you
Lawrence Alma Tadema: Spring (Getty Museum Studies
on Art) by Louise Lippincott – Paperback, 97 pages (September
1991) J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
This second volume in the Getty Museum Studies on Art focuses
on Spring, one of Tadema's most renowned paintings. The book
is lavishly illustrated and includes details of the painting,
a history, and an analysis focusing on sources, composition,
and symbolism.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Elizabeth Prettejohn,
Edwin Becker (Editor) – Includes 150 illustrations, 100
in color.
Sir
Edward Coley Burne-Jones met Rossetti in 1855, became
his pupil, and was to become the most important artist
of what might be called the second generation Pre-Raphaelites.
Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was a leading artist in what
is often referred to as the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite
movement. Inspired by medieval, classical, and biblical themes,
his paintings of graceful women, angels, gods, and heroes are
dreamlike and sentimental. He also designed mosaics, tapestries,
and stained-glass windows for churches throughout England. This
fascinating scholarly study sheds new light on the inspiration
and working practices of this most romantic of artists.
Lawrence
Alma-Tadema by Rosemary J. Barrow Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press (October 1, 2003)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), was one of the finest
and most distinctive of the Victorian painters. Dutch-born,
he moved to London in 1870 and became famous for his depictions
of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, set in fabulous
marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean
sea and sky. In this original study, Rosemary Barrow presents
an absorbing and often amusing portrait of an exuberant personality
who carved out a brilliant career for himself at the heart of
London's artistic and cultural elite. But above all she subjects
the paintings to a fresh scrutiny, and reveals that Alma-Tadema,
a knowledgeable student of antiquity, repeatedly used literary
and archaeological allusions in his paintings to play a game
of interpretation with his viewers. Time and again the seeming
innocence of the scenes he depicts is subverted by a mischievously
placed inscription or statue, suggesting to the initiated a
darker and usually risque meaning. Neglected after his death,
Alma-Tadema's paintings are once again admired for their beauty
and their remarkable mastery of light, colour and texture. With
its intriguing insights into his personality and intentions,
this book should provide a challenging reassessment of a major
artist.
From The Publisher: Burne-Jones was one of the most important
artist of the second phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and
one of the greatest of all English romantic painters. Through
his lifelong association with William Morris he was also a prolific
designer of stained glass, tapestries, tiles, mosaics, books
and furniture. In this authoritative new book, in which five
of Burne-Jones's series of pictures and tapestries are reproduced
in full for the first time (other than in catalogs), the true
glory of the artist's vision and range are made accessible.
His personal charm, conveyed whimsically in the caricatures
with which he illustrated his voluminous correspondence, together
with his relationships with his family and also with his beautiful
mistress, Maria Zambaco, are revealed, and his position in the
context not only of the Pre-Raphaelites, but also of the wider
European stage and the symbolist movement, is thoroughly analyzed.
Burne-Jones is at last receiving his fair due of recognition
as witnessed by the recent Met show in the Summer of 1998. This
book showcases his many merits, including a unerring color and
design technique applied to fantastical subjects. What makes
the book so irresistible is the wealth of color plates accompanied
by detailed explanations.
Burne-Jones by Debra N. Mancoff – Paperback
1 Ed edition (March 1998) Pomegranate
From Booknews: Ninety-six reproductions, mostly in color
(many of them for the first time), illustrate this personal
view of an artist who shunned the prosaic tendencies of his
age to focus on an alternative realm inspired by poetry and
legend. Drawing on the artist's own letters and commentary,
the author looks at the course of his life, the enduring themes
in his work, and his quest for an aesthetic ideal. She traces
his career from his discovery of art to his momentous and long-delayed
professional debut in 1877.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones by Russell Ash – Hardcover,
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (October 5, 1993)
Sir Edward Burne-Jones by Russell Ash – Paperback,
Publisher: Chrysalis Books (April 17, 1997)
Usually identified with the Pre-Raphaelites, Burne-Jones (1833-98)
was actually a latecomer to the Brotherhood. As Ash (Sir
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Abrams, 1990) maintains here, he was
finally regarded as the leader of the subsequent Aesthetic movement,
a percursor of Symbolism. Described as the "first monograph
in 20 years'' on Burne-Jones, this work is art publishing at
its most sumptuous. In the 40 oversize plates (14'' x 11''),
Burne-Jones's dark woods and dreaming maidens appear at their
most compelling.
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald –
Paperback, 320 pages (September 1997) Sutton Publishing
The only complete biography in print of this famous contemporary
of William Morris, best known as the designer of stained glass
and tapestries for Morris and Co. First published in 1975, this
new edition includes 8 pages of color plates and an updated
bibliography.
John
William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
John
William Waterhouse was born in 1849, a year after the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded. He style was very
individual fusion of classicism and the Pre-Raphaelitism,
and also he was dedicated to beautiful girls in the Pre-Raphaelite
style, fondness for the idea of the femme fatale, and
realism.
J. W. Waterhouse by Peter Trippi Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press (October 18, 2002)
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) is one of the most enduringly
popular of the Victorian artists, and paintings such as The
Lady of Shalott, Hylas and the Nymphs and Ophelia have become
icons recognized the world over. With their compelling composition
and glowing colour, these paintings are admired for their beauty
and for their power to transport the viewer into a romantic
world of myth and legend. At the same time, Waterhouse's wistful
heroines also reflect the troubled attitudes of nineteenth-century
male artists towards women.
In this carefully researched new study, Peter Trippi presents
a fresh and absorbing analysis of the artist's seductresses,
martyrs and nymphs, and the cultural and historical circumstances
in which they were produced. He also utilizes new research to
provide an accessible biography of the artist. Themes explored
include Waterhouse's passion for Italy, literature and the classical
world, the role of the Royal Academy in his life, his stylistic
influences and studio practice, and his relations with collectors,
dealers, critics and curators.
Neglected throughout much of the twentieth century, Waterhouse
has enjoyed a dramatic revival of fortune. Peter Trippi's monograph
provides a timely re-evaluation that combines a close reading
of Waterhouse's imagery with a candid appraisal of the milieu
in which he worked.
J. W. Waterhouse by Anthony Hobson – Paperback,
128 pages Reprint edition, Phaidon Press Inc., 1993
The lavish reproductions in this book do homage to the wonderful
God-given
ability of the artist. Waterhouse's nymphs, faeries and women
are innocent, gorgeous, and fetching, his colors deep, dark
and lush, his men heroic and altruistic. If you love PreRaphaelite
era art, Romanticism, mythical stories skillfully representated
in figure art, this is the book for you. Though I bought the
book for the reproductions, I recently read the text and found
it helpful.
The paintings of J.W. Waterhouse are perennially popular. This
compact edition brings together a selection of the artist's
finest watercolors, depicting scenes from Middle Ages legends
and myths of the ancient world. The paintings are accompanied
by illuminating explanations of the myths and legends that inspired
Waterhouse.
In this unusual book readers are given the opportunity to examine
works of the Pre-Raphaelites as closely as a conservator would,
and to uncover the artistic methods practiced by these painters.
Combining modern scientific research-including X-ray and infrared
technology, high-level magnification, and material analysis-with
commentary from the letters and diaries of the artists themselves,
this book explores the innovative techniques behind 20 of their
extraordinary works in a way that no previously published study
has attempted.
In addition to extensive full-color illustrations, many of them
large-scale details, this fascinating volume features texts
by leading conservators that provide a historical perspective
on the works and techniques in question.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of de Morgan's work
at the Victoria
and Albert Museum in 1989, this book contains the complete collection
of William de Morgan's original pottery and tile designs and
drawings that was given to the museum after his death in 1917.
With just about 20 pages of text of the total 256 pages, it
is nearly all photographs with over 50 pages in color.
John
Everett Millais (1829–1896)
Sir
John Everett Millais was the most talented artist of the
Brotherhood and his first public achievements were the
Silver Medal at the Society of Arts when he was only nine
and a medal for drawing from the antique at the Royal
Academy of Arts at the age of 14. His life was one long
success story and he was the only member of the Pre-Raphaelites
to abandon later its principles completely.
The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
has been framed in terms of his rise to notoriety as an original
member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood followed by a compromising
descent into comfortable success as a popular painter and leading
figure in the Royal Academy. But this dismissal of Millais's
post- Raphaelite work overlooks more than forty years of artistic
endeavor and distinction. In this book, nine scholars reexamine
Millais's entire career from a variety of perspectives, arriving
at a new vision of his place in the history of British art and
finding that fame and recognition did not represent the end
of this important Victorian artist's development. The contributors
consider the whole fabric of Millais's work, seeking the patterns
of continuity through his career. They acknowledge the significance
of Millais's association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
yet place that brief phase into the context of his entire body
of work. Exploring such topics as Millais's position among contemporary
artists; his active interests in theater, literature, and science;
his life-long love of nature; his role as a celebrity and a
popular artist; and his enduring fascination with the poignant
specter of mortality, the book presents a portrait of Millais
not limited by the parameters of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
It is a portrait of a supremely gifted artist, a rival of Frederic
Leighton, and a counterpart to Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Millais: Portraits by John Everett Millais (Editor),
Malcolm Warner, Kate Flint (Contributor), H. Matthew, Peter
Funnell – Paperback, 240 pages (March 1999)
Millais:
Portraits by John Everett Millais (Editor), Malcolm
Warner, Kate Flint (Contributor), H. Matthew, Peter Funnell
– Hardback, 240 pages (March 1999)
John Everett Millais is still thought of mostly as a Pre-Raphaelite
painter, but a much longer portion of his career was devoted
to painting the portraits of the Victorian rich and famous.
Not only did this prove extraordinarily lucrative—Millais
earned what by today's standards would be millions from his
portraits—it offered one of the most talented 19th-century
painters the chance to fashion powerful and memorable images
of the people of his age. This book is the catalog to the 1999
Millais Portrait exhibition debuting at the National Gallery
in London and traveling around the United States. It is a much
more handsome production than most catalogs.
A handsome large-format monograph on the career and major work
of the most successful British painter of the Victorian era.
Now in paperback, featuring 55 fine color reproductions. John
Everett Millais (1829-96) was a child prodigy who entered the
Royal Academy at the unprecedented age of eleven; he later rose
to prominence as one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
In the view of the illustrious writer John Ruskin, he was ``the
most powerful of them all.'' He achieved fame and wealth as
the painter of some of the era's most popular pictures; he was
equally at home with historical, literary, and religious themes
as well as landscapes, genre paintings, and society portraits.
His private life was considered scandalous (he ran off with
Ruskin's wife), yet he rose to the highest ranks of British
society.
William
Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
William
Holman Hunt is the least known of the Brotherhood even
though he was the only one faithful to its principles.
His determination kept the Brotherhood together in difficult
times.
William Holman Hunt was one of the three major artistic talents
of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. Hunt’s work was always
characterized by great seriousness of purpose, and his paintings
include many of the most beautiful and powerful images of that
midcentury explosion of creativity. This catalogue raisonée
gives him the attention he deserves.
(I
believe the book cover to the right is the second volume of
this set). The book includes an introduction that assesses Hunt’s
life and artistic practice and discusses his aims, philosophy,
and religious beliefs, which shed light on his works. While
many of his paintings, with their extraordinary effects of light
and color, are immediately accessible, his mature works incorporate
symbolism that cannot be fully understood without a detailed
knowledge of his intentions, and the catalogue entries thoroughly
explore this. The volume presents Hunt’s oils and works
on paper in two separate sections, and appendixes provide additional
information on his illustrated letters, etchings, published
illustrations, sculpture, and furniture.
John
William Godward (1861–1922)
John William Godward was an English
painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite / Neo-Classicist
era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
but his style of painting fell out of favour with the
arrival of painters like Picasso. He committed suicide
at the age of 61 and is said to have written in his suicide
note that "the world was not big enough" for
him and a Picasso.
Lots of hard research provides a little information on this
painter. Most of the information centers around the paintings,
and sketches themselves , as well of the criticism of his art.
This book contains 160 + beautiful , high quality images (including
one of J.W. Godward as a child).
Ford
Madox Brown ( 1821–1893)
Ford
Madox Brown was formally never a member of the Brotherhood,
but his paintings very much influenced over the Pre-Raphaelites,
and he was the most important Pre-Raphaelite painter outside
the Brotherhood.
The Art of Ford Madox Brown by Kenneth Bendiner
– Hardcover, 288 pages (December 1997) Pennsylvania State
Univ Press (Txt)
This is the first comprehensive history devoted to the art of
Ford Madox Brown (1821-93), in which his paintings establish
him as a major figure in the most important new art movement
of Victorian England, Pre-Raphaelitism. The book presents a
new explanation of the development and basic aims of Pre-Raphaelite
art as a whole and offers a revealing discussion of the power
and importance of the humorous vein and negative spirit that
run throughout Brown's work. It also ties Brown's realist approach
to British decorative taste at mid-century and redefines his
place in the Aesthetic Movement, a cultural trend that dominated
the latter half of the nineteenth century. In addition, the
artist's socialist leanings and nationalistic tendencies, expressed
in depictions of workers, children, women, and religious scenes,
are set out more fully than in any previous literature on the
artist.
Arthur
Hughes (1832–1915)
Arthur
Hughes was born in London and studied to become a painter
at the Royal Academy Schools. There he met Rossetti, Millais
and Holman Hunt, and joined them in making the mural decoration
of the Oxford Union. Hughes remained under the influence
of the Pre-Raphaelites, and many of his paintings follow,
more or less closely, the themes produced by members of
the Brotherhood.
As a serious student of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their
associates, I have noticed a curious lack of materials regarding
Arthur Hughes and his work. This is perhaps due to the unfortunate
destruction (evidently) of much of the papers and materials
that would give better light to his biography, as well as his
partial detraction from oil painting to produce much illustration
work. No less important, in truth, is likely the fact that he
was not one of the most successful of Victorian age painters.
However, the charm of coloring and subjects in his unique style
certainly warrants a serious treatment and _Arthur Hughes: His
Life and Works_ is an admirable and well-produced effort. Not
only that, but it is the only one that I have yet to discover.
With this fact in mind, I can only give it the highest of recommendations
to anyone fortunate enough to have a similar taste for his work.
The reproductions are excellent, the biography informative,
and the content far more complete than the fragmented references
to him to be found elsewhere.
Albert
Joseph Moore (1841–1893)
Albert
Moore began his career painting in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Influenced by the work of Elgin Marbles, he turned to
classical subject matter in the 1860’s. He was also
a friend of Whistler’s, having met him in 1865. The
two shared a similar painting approach, specializing in
draped female figures.
Albert Moore by Robyn Asleson – Hardcover, 240
pages (July 2000) Phaidon Press Inc.
Albert Moore (1841-93) was one of the most important late-Victorian
artists. He employed the female figure to embody abstract systems
of ideal beauty, and created many defining images of the Aesthetic
Movement. This book presents a view of the artist's allegedly
reclusive personality, and seeks to establish him as a major
figure and a significant precursor of Modernism.
William
Morris (1834–1896)
William
Morris, a poet, designer, and later a socialist who urged
a return to medieval traditions of design, craftsmanship,
and community. He was the prime figure in the formation
of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
William Morris by Linda Parry (Editor), Victoria
and Albert Museum – Hardcover, 384 pages (October 1996)
William Morris was one of the most influencial designers of
the 19th century, and his appeal remains strong today. Many
of his wallpaper, carpet, and textile patterns are still in
production. Now, the life and work of this pioneer of the British
Arts and Crafts Movement is fully analyzed for the first time
in the most complete and multifaceted look at Morris ever published.
565 illustrations, 394 in color.
Anthony
Frederick Sandys (1829–1904)
Anthony
Frederick Sandys was one of the most devoted pupils of
Rossetti. Like Rossetti, most of his paintings were of
beautiful women, but he also got an enormous reputation
as an illustrator of books and magazines, who treated
each illustration as a major artwork.
Sandys was never a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,
but to a great extent he adopted their methods, and followed
the same ideals.
The
Period, the Members & the Art
The
Pre-Raphaelites at Home by Pamela Todd Paperback:
192 pages Publisher: Pavilion Books; New Ed edition (May 28,
2003)
Set against the background of an opulent and affluent Victorian
art establishment, Pre-Raphaelites at Home tells the story of
a fiery group of artists whose ideas—which were seen as
revolutionary—and avant-garde lifestyle-deemed impossibly
bohemian—were at odds with the conventional wisdom of the
time.
Led by the charismatic Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the semi-secret
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood attracted some of the most colorful
and complex personalities of the age, including William Holman
Hunt, John Everett Millais, Ford Madox Brown, and Edward Burne-Jones.
These artists took their creative inspiration not from the works
of other painters, but directly from nature. Female beauty was
central to their art; friendship, to their lives.
The lively, entertaining narrative is lavishly illustrated throughout
with beautiful color reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings,
as well as wonderful photographs of the artists and their homes
and studios. Jane
Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model of Beauty by Debra
N. Mancoff – Paperback, 128 pages (August 2000)
Immortalized in the sensuous paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and widely imitated by fashionable women, Jane Morris (1839-1914)
was, nonetheless, not your typical Victorian beauty. Her unruly
dark hair, dense brows, tall and angular figure, and taste for
loose, unadorned garments stood out in an age that favored fair-haired
women of small stature, with feminine curves exaggerated by
corsets and crinolines. Drawing on dozens of lavish portraits
and rare photographs, author Debra Mancoff examines Jane Morris's
"strange beauty"within the context of Pre-Raphaelite
aesthetic ideals and Victorian standards of fashion. The chronological
narrative traces Morris's rise from an eighteen-year-old working-class
Oxford girl to a virtual "supermodel" for the Pre-Raphaelites,
focusing in particular on her relationships with artist-designer
William Morris, whom she married in 1859, and Rossetti, with
whom she shared a lifelong romance.
The lure of the siren, the comeliness of the mermaid, the elegiac
beauty of Ophelia—in captivating paintings by such artists
as J.W. Waterhouse, Frederick Lord Leighton, Gustaav Klimt,
and Edward Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelites, this exquisite
volume takes a mystical journey into the deep waters where romantic
art flows together with female enigma and timeless mystery.
90+ color illustrations.
This exquisite volume, both an authoritative reference and a
handsome coffee table book, features full-page reproductions
from such famous artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones,
William Morris, and others.
The
Pre-Raphaelite Vision by Editors of Phaidon Press –
Paperback, 160 pages (October 1994) Phaidon Press Inc.
The Pre-Raphaelites produced some of Victorian art's most famous
images. Now, this jewel-like book draws together classic images
of female grace from that era's paintings and sketches. Together
with excerpts from their writing and poetry, this miniature
volume evokes the charm, personality, and passion of the Pre-Raphaelites's
art.
This study of Pre-Raphaelite painters and poets reveals a style-derived
from the idealized view of nature in the early Italian Renaissance-steeped
in mythology and literary allusion and very popular today with
lovers of romantic art and poetry. 125 illustrations, 95 in
full color, 5 x 7"
Introduction: The Royal Academy - John Ruskin - The Formation
of the Brotherhood - The Modern-Life Subject - The Image
of Women - The Fallen Woman - The Town - The Country
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882
John Everett Millais 1829-1896
William Holman Hunt 1827-1910
Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893
William Morris 1834-1896
Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1833-1898
Arthur Hughes 1832-1915
Aftermath
The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts: Symbolism in Britain
1860-1910 by Andrew Wilton (Editor), Robert Upstone (Contributor),
Barbara Bryant (Contributor), Tate Gallery Publishing Limited
– Hardcover, 256 pages (November 1997) Abbeville Press,
Inc.
Chapters include: The Ugliness of Early Pre-Raphaelitism, The
Retrogressive Argument, Archaism, Pathological Discourse, Rossetti,
the Sexualized Woman and the Late 1850s, The Fallen Woman: 'Jenny'
and Found, The Passionate Woman: Mary Magdalene, Guenevere,
Jehane, and Lucrezia Borgia, The Sexualized Woman: Rossetti's
Bocca baciata, Rossetti and Male Desire, Pygmalion and Rossetti's
'A Last Confession, The Woman in the Mirror, Burne-Jones and
the Aesthetic Body, The Aesthetic Conspiracy, The Problems of
Femininity and Effeminization, The Theology of Intensity, The
Androgynous Mind, The Pathology of Aestheticism, The Importance
of Physiognomy, and The Solitary Vice
From The Publisher: Pre-Raphaelitism continues to generate
considerable scholarly interest, and a new revisionist approach
is offered in Pre-Raphaelite Art in Its European Context, which
attempts to evaluate the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their
followers not in isolation as a solely British phenomenon but
rather in terms of its larger Continental contexts in the nineteenth
century. Essays by contributors forge links of Pre-Raphaelite
art and thought with such movements as Impressionism, Symbolism,
and the Rose + Croix salons.
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The
Pre-Raphaelites
John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism
The Pre-Raphaelite Body: Fear and Desire in Painting,
Poetry, and Criticism 
Romantics & Realists: Rossetti
Color, Dolby, NTSC
, Color, NTSC 
Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists 
Rossetti and His Circle 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
Frederick
Lord Leighton was never a member of the Pre-Raphaelites,
yet was he friends with many of them, and there was close
link between his Aesthetic Classicism (Victorian Classical
painting) and the Pre-Raphaelite style. 
Lord Leighton
Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist
The Art of Lord Leighton
Lord Leighton
The
Dutch-born Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a great Anglophile,
who became one of the best known Victorian Classical Painters,
but was never a member of the Pre-Raphaelites. He was
knighted on Queen Victoria's 80th birthday in 1899. He
painted beautiful people in classical settings, preferable
in ancient Egypt and Rome, men and women posing against
white marble in dazzling sunlight. 
Lawrence
Alma-Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Sir
Edward Coley Burne-Jones met Rossetti in 1855, became
his pupil, and was to become the most important artist
of what might be called the second generation Pre-Raphaelites.
Burne-Jones: The Life and Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones
(1833-1898) 
Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-Dreamer
Burne-Jones 
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones
John
William Waterhouse was born in 1849, a year after the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded. He style was very
individual fusion of classicism and the Pre-Raphaelitism,
and also he was dedicated to beautiful girls in the Pre-Raphaelite
style, fondness for the idea of the femme fatale, and
realism. 
J. W. Waterhouse
Myth and Romance: The Art of J.W. Waterhouse
Pre-Raphaelite
Painting Techniques
The Designs of William De Morgan
Millais: Portraits
Sir John Everett Millais 
(I
believe the book cover to the right is the second volume of
this set). The book includes an introduction that assesses Hunt’s
life and artistic practice and discusses his aims, philosophy,
and religious beliefs, which shed light on his works. While
many of his paintings, with their extraordinary effects of light
and color, are immediately accessible, his mature works incorporate
symbolism that cannot be fully understood without a detailed
knowledge of his intentions, and the catalogue entries thoroughly
explore this. The volume presents Hunt’s oils and works
on paper in two separate sections, and appendixes provide additional
information on his illustrated letters, etchings, published
illustrations, sculpture, and furniture.
Ford
Madox Brown was formally never a member of the Brotherhood,
but his paintings very much influenced over the Pre-Raphaelites,
and he was the most important Pre-Raphaelite painter outside
the Brotherhood. 
The Art of Ford Madox Brown 
Arthur
Hughes was born in London and studied to become a painter
at the Royal Academy Schools. There he met Rossetti, Millais
and Holman Hunt, and joined them in making the mural decoration
of the Oxford Union. Hughes remained under the influence
of the Pre-Raphaelites, and many of his paintings follow,
more or less closely, the themes produced by members of
the Brotherhood.
Arthur Hughes: His Life and Works 
Albert
Moore began his career painting in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Influenced by the work of Elgin Marbles, he turned to
classical subject matter in the 1860’s. He was also
a friend of Whistler’s, having met him in 1865. The
two shared a similar painting approach, specializing in
draped female figures.
Albert Moore
William
Morris, a poet, designer, and later a socialist who urged
a return to medieval traditions of design, craftsmanship,
and community. He was the prime figure in the formation
of the Arts and Crafts Movement. 
William Morris
Anthony
Frederick Sandys was one of the most devoted pupils of
Rossetti. Like Rossetti, most of his paintings were of
beautiful women, but he also got an enormous reputation
as an illustrator of books and magazines, who treated
each illustration as a major artwork.
Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonne
Jane
Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model of Beauty
From the Deep Waters: Maidens of Myth and Mystery 
The Pre-Raphaelites
The
Pre-Raphaelite Vision 
The
Art of the Pre-Raphaelites 
Pre-Raphaelites: Romance and Realism
The Pre-Raphaelites and Their World 
The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts: Symbolism in Britain
Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: The Anglo-American Enchantment
Pre-Raphaelite Paintings from Manchester Cityart Galleries
Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham
Collection, England 
Pre-Raphaelite Prints: The Graphic Art of Millais, Holman
Hunt, Rossetti and Their Followers 
The Pre-Raphaelites (Colour Library) 
The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle
Pre-Raphaelites Re-Viewed (Cultural Politics) 
Pre-Raphaelite Art in Its European Context
