An artist can reveal the true personality of their sitter through a drawing. The first section of the Ashmolean’s exhibition includes intimate portraits of the group’s family, patrons and friends; it ...

Oxford: For the Ashmolean Museum's first major exhibition in its new building, the title "The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy" sounds a bit self-evident. In what other country would you expect to find the ...

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Watercolors, Nikolaus Pevsner explained in his 1964 lecture “The Englishness of English Art,” enjoy in Britain a status “never equalled in any other country.” The reason, Pevsner suggested, is that ...

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

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