On “Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman” at the Watts Gallery, Surrey. It must have been fun to be a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but what about the ...

Whether you like 19th century painting or not, it’s hard to ignore the Pre-Raphaelites, and it’s even harder to ignore the powerful beauty of their female models and muses – or “Pre-Raphaelite ...

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...

My mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The ...