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 ...

The handful of British artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were “a radical yet backward-looking” bunch, said Jeffry Cudlin in the Washington City Paper. The movement’s major ...

The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...

In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...

Henry Wallis, “Chatterton” (c. 1855–56), oil on canvas, 62.2 x 93.3 cm (24 1/2 x 36 3/4 in), Tate Gallery, London (all images courtesy the National Gallery of Art) In its first iteration in London, ...

The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...

This exhibition makes a strong case that the Pre-Raphaelites offered much more than a lot of pretty faces. The paintings are organized mostly thematically, with hints toward chronological ordering as ...

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

On Friday night, a JW Waterhouse painting of naked nymphs was removed from the walls of Manchester Art Gallery in northern England. The move, according to the museum, was a bid to “challenge a ...