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Fresh betrayal: a revised chapter in the early history of the Pre-Raphaelites
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 389–391
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Author:
Beckham, Susie (Beckham, Susie)
Subjects
artists:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel / Millais, John Everett / Hunt, William Holman
dates:
1840-1849 / 1850-1859
subjects:
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood / Journals / British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The girlhood of Mary Virgin, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1848–49. Oil on canvas, 83.2 by 65.4 cm. (Tate).
Attributed works:
2. Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother, by William Holman Hunt. 1849. Oil on canvas, 83 by 117 cm. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.4, showing the initials ‘PRB’ carved into the bench in the lower-right corner of the painting.
Attributed works:
4. Isabella, by John Everett Millais. 1849. Oil on canvas, 103 by 142.8 cm. (National Museums, Liverpool).
Article
Algernon Moses Marsden, ‘the most enterprising of picture dealers’
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 874-887
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Author:
Matyjaszkiewicz, Krystyna (Matyjaszkiewicz, Krystyna)
Subjects
artists:
Tissot, James / Millais, John Everett / Loppé, Gabriel / Frith, William Powell
collectors and dealers:
Marsden, Algernon Moses / Gambart, Ernest
collectors and dealers:
Fox White, Edward
patrons:
Knowles, Kaye
subjects:
Victorian art / Art market / Art dealers / Jewish / Collectors
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Effie Deans, from ‘The Heart of Midlothian’ by Sir Walter Scott, by John Everett Millais. 1877. Oil on canvas, 104.1 by 76.8 cm. (Private collection; photograph © Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
10. Il dolce far niente, by William Holman Hunt. 1866. Oil on canvas, 101 by 81.2 cm. (Private collection; photograph © Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
11. The Race for Wealth, no.3: Victims, after William Powell Frith. 1880. Engraving, 69 by 76.6 cm. (Photograph © Museum of London).
Attributed works:
2. Algernon Moses Marsden, by James Tissot. 1877. Oil on canvas, 49.5 by 73.7 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
3. Edward Fox White, by James Tissot. c.1877. Oil on canvas, 73.7 by 54 cm. (Private collection; photograph © Christie’s Images).
Attributed works:
4. Le Buet seen from the Glacier d’Argentiere, Chamonix, by Gabriel Loppé. 1876. Oil on canvas, 60 by 45 cm. (Private collection; photograph © John Mitchell Fine Paintings / Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Display advertisement in the Daily News for the Conduit Street Gallery, mirroring one for E. Moses & Son. 6th April 1875. (Courtesy of the British Newspaper Archive; © The British Library Board).
Attributed works:
6. Westminster, by Giuseppe de Nittis. 1878. Oil on canvas, 110 by 195 cm. (© A. Dagli Orti; NPL – DeA Picture Library; Bridgeman Images)
Attributed works:
7. Piccadilly: wintry walk in London, by Giuseppe de Nittis. 1875. Oil on canvas, 68.5 by 104 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
8. Afternoon tea, also known as In the conservatory, by James Tissot. 1874. Oil on canvas, 38.4 by 51.1 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
9. The convalescent, by James Tissot. 1876. Oil on canvas, 75.4 by 98.4 cm. (Museums Sheffield).
Exhibition Review
Van Gogh and Britain
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 427-430
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Gogh, Vincent van / Doré, Gustave / Walker, Frederick / Gilman, Harold / Pissarro, Lucien / Wood, Christopher / Hobbema, Meindert / Millais, John Everett / Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Prints
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Dutch art / British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Arlésienne, by Vincent Van Gogh. 1890. Canvas, 65 by 54 cm. (Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
21. Study for portrait of Van Gogh IV, by Francis Bacon. 1957. Canvas, 152.4 by 116.8 cm. (Tate; Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
22. The prison courtyard, by Vincent Van Gogh. 1890. Canvas, 80 by 64 cm. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Article
‘The Order of the Garter’: an unpublished drawing by Simeon Solomon
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 227-229
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Author:
Marsh, Jan (Marsh, Jan)
Subjects
artists:
Solomon, Simeon / Millais, John Everett / Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood / Watkins (1828-1916), Herbert
dates:
1850-1859
media:
Drawings
museums and institutions:
National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain
styles:
British School
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. John Everett Millais, by Herbert Watkins. 1857. Albumen print, 20.3 by 15.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
11. The Order of the Garter, by Simeon Solomon. 1857. Pencil on paper, 16.9 by 21.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
9. Anthony Trollope, by and after Herbert Watkins. Late 1850s or early 1860s. Albumen print, 8.8 by 5.6 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Book Review
Windows for the World: Nineteenth-Century Stained Glass and the International Exhibitions, 1851–1900. By Jasmine Allen
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1073-1074
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Reviewer:
Harrison, Martin (Harrison, Martin)
Subjects
art literature:
Winston, Charles
artists:
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore / Parry, Thomas Gambier / Day, Lewis F. / Suffling, Ernest R. / Wiley, Kehinde / Millais, John Everett / Heaton, Butler and Bayne / Gibbs, Alexander
dates:
1850-1899
media:
Stained glass
places:
Great Britain / France / United States
subjects:
Glassmakers / Exhibitions / Cultural history / Politics / Nationalism / Race / Slavery / Style / Iconography / Historiography / Pre-Raphaelite
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Madonna and Child, by Kehinde Wiley. 2016. Stained glass in an aluminium frame, 249 by 117 cm. (© Kehinde Wiley Studio; courtesy the artist and Galerie Templon, Paris and Brussels).
Exhibition Review
Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites. London
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 244-246
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Reviewer:
Duffy, Stephen (Duffy, Stephen)
Subjects
artists:
Eyck, Jan van / Velázquez, Diego / Hunt, William Holman / Millais, John Everett / Rossetti, Dante Gabriel / Brown, Ford Madox / Burne-Jones, Edward / Orpen, William / Gertler, Mark / Solomon, Simeon / Meteyard, Sidney H. / Shannon, Charles Haslewood
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Books
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain / National Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
British painting / Netherlandish painting / Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
works:
The Arnolfini Portrait (National Gallery, London)
works:
Las Meninas (Prado, Madrid)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
17. Mariana, by John Everett Millais. 1851. Panel, 59.7 by 49.5 cm. (Tate, London).
Attributed works:
18. Portrait of Giovanni (?) Arnolfini and his wife (‘The Arnolfini portrait’), by Jan van Eyck. 1434. Panel, 82.2 by 60 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
19. ‘Take your son, Sir!’, by Ford Madox Brown. 1851–52, enlarged and reworked 1856–57. Canvas, 70.5 by 38.1 cm. (Tate, London).
Article
William Holman Hunt’s first idea for ‘The hireling shepherd’?
07/2014 | 1336 | 156
Pages: 460-463
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Author:
Grieve, Alastair (Grieve, Alastair; Grieve, A. I.; Grieve, Alistair; Grieve, Alastair Ian)
Subjects
artists:
Hunt, William Holman / Millais, John Everett / Collins, Charles Alston, 1828-1873
dates:
1850-1859
museums and institutions:
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain
subjects:
Visual sources / Pre-Raphaelite / Attributions, tentative / Drawings / Collections, Private / Provenance / Collections, Public / Composition (artistic arrangement)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
48. The hireling shepherd, by William Holman Hunt (City of Manchester Art Galleries)
Attributed works:
49. Young pipe players, here attributed to William Holman Hunt (Dr Dennis T. Lanigan collection; image courtesy of Maas Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
50. Picnic scene, by John Everett Millais (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
51. Drawing related to Convent thoughts, by Charles Allston Collins (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
52. The Lady of Shalott, by William Holman Hunt (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Felton Bequest)
Attributed works:
53. The three ages of Man, by Titian (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; Bridgewater Loan)
Article
The Pre-Pre-Raphaelite: John Rogers Herbert
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 311-317
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Author:
Langham Hooper, Nancy (Langham Hooper, Nancy)
Subjects
artists:
Herbert, John Rogers
artists:
Collinson, James
artists:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel / Millais, John Everett
dates:
1850-1859
museums and institutions:
Guildhall Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Religious art / Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood / Art education
subjects:
Influence / Critical Reception / Visual sources / Christian iconography
subjects:
Collections, Public / Jesus Christ
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. The youth of our Lord (copy of Our Saviour subject to his parents at Nazareth, 1847), by John Rogers Herbert (Guildhall Art Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
20. Christ in the house of his parents ('The Carpenter's Shop'), by John Everett Millais (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
21. The Passover in the Holy Family, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
22. A converted British family sheltering a Christian missionary from the persecution of the Druids, by William Holman Hunt (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
23. The first introduction of Christianity into Britain, by John Rogers Herbert (Private collection)
Attributed works:
24. St Gregory the Great teaching the Roman boys to sing the chant, by John Rogers Herbert (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Attributed works:
25. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, by John Rogers Herbert (Palace of Westminster Collection, London)
Attributed works:
26. Thomas Combe, by John Everett Millais (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Attributed works:
27. William Bennett, by Charles Alston Collins (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Book Review
John Everett Millais
12/2012 | 1317 | 154
Pages: 856-857
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Reviewer:
Grieve, Alastair (Grieve, Alastair; Grieve, A. I.; Grieve, Alistair; Grieve, Alastair Ian)
Subjects
artists:
Millais, John Everett
dates:
1850-1899
subjects:
British painting / Pre-Raphaelite / Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood / Biographies
Illustrations
Attributed works:
31. Autumn leaves, by John Everett Millais. 1856. Canvas, 104.3 by 74 cm. (Manchester Art Gallery).
Exhibition Review
Millais
12/2007 | 1257 | 149
Pages: 869-870
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Reviewer:
Wilton, Andrew (Wilton, Andrew)
Subjects
artists:
Millais, John Everett
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Kitakyush Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan / Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
places:
London / England
places:
Amsterdam / Netherlands / Tokyo / Japan
places:
Fukuoka
print:
Millais, John Everett
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Millais | institution: Bunkamura Museum of Art , institution: Kitakyush Municipal Museum of Art , institution: Tate Britain , institution: Van Gogh Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
71. Study for ‘Christ in the house of his parents’, by John Everett Millais. c.1849. Pencil, pen, ink and wash on paper, 19 by 33.7 cm. (Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
72. The fringe of the moor, by John Everett Millais. 1874. Canvas, 136 by 216 cm. (Johannesburg Art Gallery; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
73. Hearts are trumps, by John Everett Millais. 1872. Canvas, 165.7 by 219.7 cm. (Tate Britain, London).
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