Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...

LONDON — In 2019, museums ostensibly wrote women back into art history. In London we saw Dora Maar (Tate Britain), Lee Krasner (Barbican), and Dorothea Tanning (Tate Modern) all step out from behind ...

The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...

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 ...

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The English don’t really like art,” a celebrated (English) abstract sculptor told me, some time ago. “We like literature and nature—gardens and landscape. That’s why we admire all those artists who go ...

There she is in Order of the Release, 1853 (pictured right), posing as the wife of an imprisoned Jacobite Highlander. I like to imagine this brilliant composition as a reflection of her marriage.

Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to Jamaican-British artist muse Fanny Eaton. During the 1860s, Eaton modelled for a number of notable painters and has been credited with challenging Victorian ...

You never know who you'll see in Delaware. On April 21, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber popped into the Delaware Art Museum. According to its social media sites, Webber, the English composer of songs from ...

Between her ankle-grazing strands and light-handed makeup application, Hailee Steinfeld’s February cover is a visual feast for anyone who loves a romantic beauty look with a bit of a plot twist. While ...

One of the biggest beauty trends at the Met Gala 2022? Cascading Pre-Raphaelite curls, as seen on everyone from Kaia Gerber and Olivia Rodrigo to Hoyeon Jung and Phoebe Dynevor. The look was a nod to ...