19th -Century Romanticism Pre-Raphaelite Women Art Muses Art
Makers Feminist Activists
Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists by Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish
Nunn, Thames and Hudson, 1998
D.G. Rossetti, Bower Meadow, 1872: Manchester City Art
Galleries, Manchester
[She needs] to give precedence to her brother Felix even if she
[is] perhaps as talented as he, she has to cultivate herself more
earnestly and eagerly for her real profession, a woman's only
profession, being a housewife. (Abraham Mendelssohn, father of
composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, ca. 1820s)
Evelyn de Morgan (1850 - 1919) Eos, 1895 (Columbia Museum of
Art, Columbia, SC):
The Women's Suffrage Movement (1818-1928)
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (8 April 1827 11 June 1891)
Lizzie Siddal by D.G. Rossetti
Jane Morris by D.G. Rossetti
Fanny Cornforth by D. G. Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones: King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, 1884,
Tate Gallery, London.
Rosetti, Study for Beatrice
Elizabeth Siddal (1829 1862)
Beata Beatrix, painted in 1870.
John Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52, Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 111.8 cm,
Tate
Joanna Mary Boyce (1831-1861)
Portrait of Sidney Wells 1859 Oil on canvas, 276 x 251 mm,
Tate
Head of a Mulatto Woman, Mrs Eaton, 1861, oil on paper on linen,
Yale Center
Jane Benham Hay
Dressing up; the Hay Thorburn children, Alison, Priscilla and
William, dressed in elaborate and colourful costumes, plumed
headresses and jewellery, Miniature Size 3.9 x 0 in. / 9.8 x 0 cm,
1870
Francesca Alexander (1837-1917)
Anna Elizabeth Blunden (1830-1915)
The Seamstress (A Song of the Shirt) Oil on canva, 1854
Emma Sandys (1843-1877)
Elaine, 1862-65, oil on panel, National Trust
Anna and Agnes Young, 1870 pencil and colored chalks on paper
Private Collection
John Everett Millais: Annie Miller, Oil painting, 1854. Annie
Miller William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) The Awakening Conscience,
Oil on canvas, 1853, Tate
Jane Burden Morris (1839-1914)
Jane Morris by Evelyn de Morgan in 1904 Jane Morris painted by
Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Proserpine (1874)
Fanny Cornforth (1835 1906)
Damsel of the Sanct Grael, 1870, 36 x 12 cm, watercolour,
private coll.
Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840-1920)
Portrait of Georgiana Burne-Jones, with Philip and Margaret,
1883
The Red and White Roses, 1865
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 1879)
Portrait of Henry Taylor (as Prospero), 1867 albumen silver
photograph 22.8 x 28.0cm The Wilson Centre for Photography
Rosa Brett (18291882)
Catnap, 1858
Rebecca Solomon (1832-1886)
The Governess,1854
Love's Labour Lost Oil on canvas, 22 3/8 x 24 inches
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (1871-1945)
The Little Foot Page, 1905
Christiana Jane Herringham (1852 1929)
A Suffragette Banner celebrating Florence Nightingale
Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown
Lucy Madox Brown (1843-1894) 1889 chalks on colored paper
Private Collection
Elsie Martindale Hueffer 1895 pastel and pencil on paper 63x53cm
Private Collection
Maria Zambaco (1843-1914)
Zambaco, Maria 'Portrait of Maria Zambacco' by Edward
Burne-Jones. (1871)
Kate Elizabeth Bunce (1858-1927)
The Keepsake, 1858 1901,Oil on canvas 813 x 495 mm, Birmingham
Museum & Art Gallery
Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927)
Self-portrait
Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni, Watercolour, gouache and gum
arabic, 78.5 x 61.1 cm, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Marianne Stokes 1855-1927
Madonna and Child, tempera on panel, 80 x 59.5 cm, Manchester
Gallery
Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919)Phosphorus and Hesperus, 1881,
Courtesy The De Morgan Centre