She was painted in 1860 by Ford Madox Brown, who had encountered her selling oranges on a London street. He dressed her (unless she was already so dressed) in a shawl typical of impoverished Irish ...

An exhibition of 185 oil paintings and watercolours from the Crowther-Oblak collection of Victorian art is on display at the National Gallery until 8 February 2026. The show highlights key strands of ...

It was in 1857, not long after the construction of the Oxford Union, that its architect, Benjamin Woodward, was visited by his close friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was this very visit that sparked ...

The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...

Nonetheless, the appreciation of styles and movements comes and goes in waves, often correlated with contemporary styles and sensibility. Among the most interesting examples of this phenomenon are the ...

Each yearned to reform the conservative British art establishment, which they felt inhibited progressive contemporary artists. The artists had attended classes at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools ...

This piece received third place in the nonfiction category of the 2025 Wallace Prize. When I was nineteen it was my simple pleasure to walk every morning from class on York Street to my small room ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest was blown away after her family heirloom fetched a huge valuation. A recent episode of the popular BBC programme was filmed at Stephens House and Gardens in North London, ...

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 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the foundations of art and art theory. It quickly went from a group of seven to a movement that counted many followers and prominent advocates. A rediscovered ...

To “rehabilitate” an artist who has been a favorite of plain people for four centuries is not so silly as it may sound. That is what the Oxford University Press has undertaken to do for Raphael. Its ...