Portrait of Fanny Holman Hunt is an 1866-1867 portrait painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. This picture is in the Toledo Museum in Ohio. Analysis of Portrait of Fanny Holman Hunt This work was finished after the death of Hunt’s wife Fanny who died in childbirth in Italy in 1866. William as tribute also …
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The Lantern Maker’s Courtship, A Street Scene in Cairo is an 1854 orientalist painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. The picture is in the Birmingham City Museum in the United Kingdom. Analysis of The Lantern Maker’s Courtship, A Street Scene in Cairo Here is an 1854 portrayal of an amorous advance by the boy …
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The Beloved is an 1865-1866 Pre-Raphaelite painting by English artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Analysis of The Beloved This scene is inspired by the biblical Song of Solomon, with the bride-to-be removing her veil. Strong color contrasts in the picture emphasize her centrality. With a Peruvian headdress and a Japanese gown, the bride occupies a vast …
Here in May Morning on Magdalen Tower we see choristers singing in the rosy light of a summer’s early morning at Magdalen College, Oxford which was William Holman Hunt’s alma mater. There is an uncertainty in this 1890 picture as to where the ground level is in the picture as a result of the carpet …
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This is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Pre-Raphaelite vision of Lady Lilith, Adam’s wife before Eve and a symbol of malevolence and vanity. Painted in 1867 Rossetti used his lover Fanny Cornforth initially for the face of Lilith but later in 1872-3 changed the face to that of Alexa Wilding. This picture was a companion piece to …
Prominent Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt began Christ and the Two Marys in the 1840s but it was not completed for five decades. It shows the resurrected Christ appearing to his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene encircled in an aureole that brings to mind the circle of life, death, and renewed eternal life, or the …
William Holman Hunt’s 1884 painting of Amaryllis, who was the famed and mythic shepherdess of the ancient Roman poet Virgil’s Eclogues. Here, Hunt in the naturalistic style of Pre-Raphaelitism transplants the shepherdess to the contemporary English countryside. The clothing is contemporary but Hunt also, as well as his meticulous study of detail, draws on a …
The Birthday is an 1868 portrait of William Holman Hunt’s second wife Edith Waugh, the sister of his deceased wife Fanny. Edith wears dark clothing with a mastery of different features while holding, among other things, roses, a necklace, and a decorative fan. Edith’s expression is melancholic and she seems to shrink from the very …
This is an 1870 Portrait of Pre-Rathaelite model Maria Zambacoby painted by British artist Edward Burne-Jones. Edward Burne-Jones was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters in the 19th century, a movement that promoted a Medieval style of art as an alternative to the influence of the Renaissance. Burne-Jones also advocated Aestheticism, or the pursuit …
John Collier’s 1897 Pre-Raphaelite painting Lady Godiva draws from an old story from the thirteenth century in England. Lady Godiva, who reputedly died between 1066 and 1086, was a lady of the Anglo-Saxon nobility and the wife of Leofric, the Earl of Mercia. According to the story, Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of …
Love’s Shadow shows a woman, whose model is actually the artist Frederick Sandys’ wife, biting down on the head of a flower. It isn’t clear whether this Pre-Raphaelite work shows the personification of Love’s destructive force or whether the woman is the victim of it. It was painted in 1867 towards the end of the …
In 1857 English Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais painted a Portrait of Sophie Gray, the sister of Millais’s wife and muse Effie Gray. Millais exploits the decorative nature of the long tresses of Sophie’s hair which frame a face that is self-possessed and confidently looks out at the viewer and could almost be mistaken as …
British painter Charles Allston Collins became a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood after meeting John Everett Millais during the 1840s. Collins quickly became influenced by their style and that is especially notable in The good harvest of 1854 which was exhibited at the Royal Academy a year after its completion in 1855. Here we see …
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Zenobia’s last look on Palmyra is an 1888 historical painting by English Pre-Raphaelite painter Herbert Gustave Schmalz. The picture depicts Zenobia, the Queen of the Palmyrene Empire which was a breakaway state in modern-day Syria that temporarily gained independence from Rome. However, she was defeated by the Roman Emperor Aurelian and her ultimate fate is …
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Cherry Ripe is an 1879 Pre-Raphaelite Portrait painting by English painter and illustrator John Everett Millais. Analysis of Millais’s Cherry Ripe Millais, who was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood exhibited Cherry Ripe at the Exposition Internationale in Paris in 1889, twenty years after it was painted. It depicts a little girl named Edie Ramage …
Portrait of Effie Gray is an 1873 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais. The work is located in the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Perth, Scotland. Analysis of Millais’s Portrait of Effie Gray Here Millais portrays in Portrait of Effie Gray, his now-wife with great dignity seated in a cushioned chair holding a …
John William Waterhouse’s Echo and Narcissus is a 1903 Greek mythological painting that depicts Echo, a mountain nymph who, after being caught fraternizing with Zeus was punished by his wife Hera, so she could only speak the last words that were spoken to her. After meeting the beautiful hunter Narcissus, Echo quickly fell in love …
