Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Past exhibition archive
17 October 2019 - 26 January 2020
Evening Standard
★★★★
Time Out
★★★★
The Telegraph
★★★★
170 years after the first pictures were exhibited by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, explores the overlooked contribution of twelve women to this iconic artistic movement. Featuring new discoveries and unseen works from public and private collections across the world, this show reveals the women behind the pictures and their creative roles in Pre-Raphaelite’s successive phases between 1850 and 1900.
Featured
Joanna Wells, Fanny Cornforth, Marie Spartali Stillman, Evelyn de Morgan, Christina Rossetti, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Effie Millais, Elizabeth Siddal, Maria Zambaco, Jane Morris, Annie Miller, Fanny Eaton
Supported by:
The Tavolozza Foundation
The Michael Marks Charitable Trust
The Peter Cadbury Trust
Media Partner
Related portraits
- Effie Gray (Lady Millais) (NPG 5160)
- The Rossetti family (NPG P1273(25b))
- Christina Rossetti; Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori) (NPG 990)
- William De Morgan (NPG 6358)
- Jane Morris (née Burden) (NPG x137526)
- Jane Morris (née Burden) (NPG x199254)
- Marie Stillman (née Spartali) (NPG x18051)
- Michael Stillman; Marie Stillman (née Spartali) (NPG x38857)
- 'The pilgrims of Siena' (NPG x6955)
- Jane Morris (née Burden) (NPG x17991)
- Jane Morris (née Burden) (NPG x17990)
- Georgiana (née Macdonald), Lady Burne-Jones; Clare Mackail (NPG x200785)
- Fanny Cornforth (née Sarah Cox) ('Lady Lilith') (NPG D37339)
Related sitters
Related artists
- Ford Madox Brown
- Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Bt
- Georgiana (née Macdonald), Lady Burne-Jones
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- (Mary) Evelyn De Morgan (née Pickering)
- Walter Howell Deverell
- William Holman Hunt
- Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
- Albert Joseph Moore
- William Morris
- Charles Fairfax Murray
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Simeon Solomon
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope