Favorite Pre-Raphaelite Images

Though many people have read my favorite Victorian novelists, fewer may have spent time gazing at the period's glorious paintings.   Below are a few to nourish your eyes.

Disclaimer: I do not possess the copyright to the following images: I reproduce them here only to bring them to a wider audience.  They come from a link I recommend: http://www.webmagick.co.uk/prcoll. 

Paintings by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Hylas and the Nymphs 1896

                 Destiny 1900                         Study for Hylas and the Nymphs  1896

Ophelia (1889)
This is one of Waterhouse's 3 images of Ophelia; sadly, the location of this picture is unknown.

Below is Waterhouse's "Annunciation." Yes, Mary does bear striking resemblance to the nymphs and to the figure in Destiny; if you can't stand fixation, you may have to avoid artists such as Waterhouse and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.   (See Christina Rossetti's poem "In an Artist's Studio" for a poetic burst of exasperation about her brother's painterly obsession with the woman who haunts his dreams.)

A Painting by Simeon Solomon ( 1840-1905)

Sappho and Erinna at Mytelene (1864)

Click here if you want to see some Pre-Raphaelite Images by Women Artists

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