Henry Wallis, “Chatterton” (c. 1855–56), oil on canvas, 62.2 x 93.3 cm (24 1/2 x 36 3/4 in), Tate Gallery, London (all images courtesy the National Gallery of Art) In its first iteration in London, ...

It is difficult to think of the Pre-Raphaelites’ work as anything other than decorative and pretty, let alone avant-garde. Google it and you’ll come up with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s bored pale-faced ...

This exhibition demonstrates Van Eyck’s influence on the Pre-Raphaelite through visual comparisons which satisfyingly reveal a complex relationship between two otherwise disparate art movements. Jan ...

In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...

Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia reignited the Victorian imagination in paintings, poetry, and plays. Among the ...

Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...

"Isabella and the Pot of Basil" by William Holman Hunt will be sold at auction in London The Delaware museum boasts the most significant collection of Pre-Raphaelite works outside of the United ...

Natalie Hegert on the real-life women who inspired some of the 19th century’s most enduringly popular art — set to star in July auctions. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith, 1867, watercolor ...

THE Pre-Raphaelite movement got bad press in the early 20th century. It tended to be lumped in with everything a new generation disliked about the Victorian period: the realism, the moralism, the ...

THE Pre-Raphaelites have come a long way since Andrew Lloyd Webber's grandmother refused to lend him £50 ($75) to buy Lord Leighton's “Flaming June” in the early 1960s because, she said, she didn't ...