![]() ![]() ![]() In 1848, then-students Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in opposition to the more traditional art espoused by the Royal Academy. ![]() The Henry Barber Trust, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham “The captions restore names to the faces gazing placidly from postcards and posters.”Ĭourtesy of National Gallery / Private collectionsĭante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blue Bower, 1865 ![]() “Visitors see these women’s own art, and their roles as collaborators and business partners, not just as lovers and wives,” writes the Atlantic’s Helen Lewis. The show draws on unseen works from both public and private collections around the world to reshape perceptions of these individuals as creative artists and poets who advocated for their own stories to be told rather than simply objectified muses. On view through January 26, “ Pre-Raphaelite Sisters” centers on 12 women-among others, the roster includes Christina Rossetti, Effie Millais and Elizabeth Siddal-and their contributions to the male-dominated narrative of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a circle of artists active between 18. Now, an ongoing exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London gives these long-overlooked figures a space of their own, sharing their stories through works of art, poems and embroidery. Despite being artists in their own right, they are remembered as symbols, rather than creators, of beauty. The women of the Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood have gone down in history as muses. ![]()
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