Places are available for my Gallery Talk on Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art at Tate Britain on Tuesday 23rd November or Tuesday 30th November, from 10.30am until 12.30pm. Please contact me if you would like to join the group on either morning and I’ll send you further details.
This talk will focus on the stunning collection of Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art at Tate Britain, including artists such as Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones and Singer Sargent.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, met in 1848 at the Royal Academy Schools and took their name from a desire to emulate painters before Raphael. Their work is characterised by serious, often moral, subject matter, highly elaborate symbolism, sharply defined forms, meticulous attention to detail and outdoor study of nature.
Artists working in the 19th century often used their paintings to address social, political and topical issues, such as the role of women in society and class decisions and typically painted in a highly realistic style.
