Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood Gallery

My First Sermon, 1863, (1947). Creator: John Everett Millais

My First Sermon, 1863, (1947). The Artist's Daughter in Winchelsea Church': portrait of Millais daughter Effie, aged about five, sitting upright and somewhat daunted, listening to the preacher's message. The location was probably All Saints Church at Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. A companion piece, painted a year or so later, shows her fast asleep, the novelty of a church service having waned. Painting in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. From "English Hymns and Hymn Writers", by Adam Fox. [Collins, London, 1947]

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The Bower Meadow, 1850-1872, (c1912). Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Bower Meadow, (c1912). Two women playing dulcimer and lute, the landscape background was painted at Sevenoaks in Kent in 1850, painting completed in 1872. British poet, illustrator, painter and translator Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti drew extensively on medieval influences, and particularly the work of his namesake, the Italian writer and poet Dante Alighieri. He married his model Elizabeth Siddal who sat for ‘Beata Beatrix, painted a year after her death. He later became a founding partner in the decorative arts firm, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, developing a relationship with William Morris wife Jane who became one of his ‘muses'. Illustration from Rossetti - Masterpieces in Colour, by Lucien Pissarro. [TC & EC Jack, Frederick A Stokes Co, London & New York, c1912]

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Sir Isumbras at the Ford, from A Catalogue of a Collection of Engravings, Etchings

KW320794 Sir Isumbras at the Ford, from A Catalogue of a Collection of Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, by Richard Fisher, published 1879 (litho) by English School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: facsimile of an anonymous engraving satirising the Pre-Raphaelite painting of the same subject by Sir John Everett Millais (see 1981), printed London, 1857;); Ken Welsh; English, out of copyright

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