Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Ink on paper, 19 × 16.8 cm Tate Britain, London The medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri inspired some of Blake‘s and Rossetti‘s greatest pictures. They each saw Dante‘s writings…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1853 Pastel and pencil on paper, 28.6 x 25.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Compare: Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882–1883 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham See also: • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Study for the Christ Child in the Virgin’s Arms 1876 Chalk on paper, 50.8 x 5.6 cm Tate Britain, London Study for the Christ Child in the Virgin’s Arms for ‘The Triumph of the Innocents’ (first version). One…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Portrait of Mrs Edith Holman Hunt 1880 Chalk and pastel on paper, 42.8 x 33.8 cm Tate Britain, London Edith Holman Hunt was the artist’s second wife, the sister of his first wife Fanny. It was a…
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Self-Portrait c.1844 Brown ink, 11.4 x 11.2 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Had Thackeray had his choice, he would have made his living not as an author but as an artist. Early in his career, he…
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Sketches of a secretary vulture s.d. Graphite and ink, 9.8 x 10.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Profile Bust of Fanny Conforth 1865 Soft graphite, 33.1 x 26.7 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Cornforth, Fanny (1835-1909)
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) King Arthur’s Death c.1859–1862 Graphite, 17.5 x 27.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Siddall was an artist, poet, model, and wife of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Although this drawing only outlines the event of King…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Head of a girl s.d. Black chalk, 33.9 x 26.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Due studi per la figura della Vittoria (Two Studies for Figure of Victory) 1531–1535 Pen and brown ink on light tan laid paper prepared with salmon wash, 6.8 × 10.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton These three fragments represent Parmigianino’s…