Artnet

Who Is Fanny Eaton? The Jamaican Model Who Inspired the Pre-Raphaelites Is the Latest Art-World Figure to Get a Google Doodle

The Google Doodle for November 18 honors Fanny Eaton, a muse to the Pre-Raphaelites who helped redefine Victorian standards of beauty. Born in Jamaica on June 23, 1835, Eaton moved to London in the ...
Artnet

‘They Seized the Opportunities’: A New London Exhibition Tells the Remarkable Stories of the Women of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement

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 ...
MutualArt.com

How the Pre-Raphaelite “Stunners” Became Market Stalwarts

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 ...
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From the Perspective of the Model: Elizabeth Siddal and Christina Rosetti

Dante Gabriel Rosetti was a pre-Raphaelite painter known for his portraiture and figure paintings. One model frequently seen in his works was Elizabeth Siddal. She was one of the most notable models ...
Los Angeles Times

Room for the garish and for the stunning

As far as the influential 19th century British critic John Ruskin was concerned, there was little hope for you if you didn’t admire the Pre-Raphaelites. Among spectators, he wrote, “none but the ...