Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2021
Summary
Oxford holds a significant place in the history of Pre-Raphaelitism. Thomas Combe, superintendent of the Clarendon Press, provided crucial early encouragement to John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, and his collection formed the basis of the Ashmolean’s holdings of works by the Brotherhood and their circle. Two young undergraduates, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, were inspired by the Combe collection and became devoted followers of the movement. In 1857, along with Dante Gabr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910807439 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910807435 |
| Author: | Christiana Payne, Fiona Mann, Robert Wilkes |
| Publisher: | Ashmolean Museum |
| Imprint: | Ashmolean Museum |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.17kg |
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Christiana Payne
Christiana Payne is Professor Emerita in History of Art in the Department of History, Philosophy and Culture at Oxford Brookes University. Her research interests are in 18th and 19th-century British landscape and genre painting, with a particular emphasis on the representation of the poor and the relationship of art to its social and political context. She has curated exhibitions and displays at Tate Britain, the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, the Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Higgins, Bedford and Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance.
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