Pre-Raphaelite Society

Day six of our #ArtistAdventCalendar with Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Light & Love’, 1865, @V&AMuseum.

A photographic interpretation of the nativity scene, the nest-like bed of straw suggests the manger in which the baby Jesus was lain.

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Jane Morris (nee Burden) is the model. Georgiana Macdonald, Burne-Jones’s wife, trained as a wood engraver, creating some beautiful artworks, and she probably collaborated with her husband on this engraving.

“Soft falls the summer snow,
On the springing grass drops light,
Not like that which long ago
Fell so deadly cold and white;
This wears the Rose’s flush,
Faint, ere bloom hath quite foregone her,
Soft as maiden’s timid blush,
With the looks she loves upon her.”

For the fifth day of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, Edward Burne-Jones’ ‘The Summer Snow’, c.1863, @royalacademy.bsky.social.

This wood engraving appeared in the May, 1863 issue of the magazine ‘Good Words’ to illustrate a poem called ‘Summer Snow’:
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Day four of our #ArtistAdventCalendar with Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. Only a glimpse of the Virgin’s face, her privacy is captured, and her bare feet show her rooted to the earth.

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For day three of our Artist Advent Calendar, poetry and a picture. William Morris & the beautiful ‘Meeting in Winter’ manuscript, from ‘Book of Verse’, made for Georgiana Burne-Jones, 1870. ❄️

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For the second day of our Artist Advent Calendar, John William Waterhouse with ‘Saint Eulalia’, 1884, @tate.bsky.social.

Waterhouse exhibited this picture in 1885 with a note, that St. Eulalia’s body was covered ‘by the miraculous fall of snow when lying in the forum after her martyrdom.’

Our Artist Advent Calendar begins today at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery with Arthur Hughes’ The Nativity, 1858.

Are you a chocolate advent calendar person, a picture advent calendar person, or one of the fancy beauty/homeware/perfume advent calendar people?

Event tomorrow-

Launch of Darling Blue a poetry book by Sarah James with live readings on a theme of blue/art from guest poets.

Saturday, 22 November 2025

3-7pm

The Gallery (upstairs) at Droitwich Library, WR9 8DQ

FREE but ticketed on Eventbrite at: www.eventbrite.com/e/darling-bl...

Are you coming to our lecture this Saturday, 1pm in Birmingham, with the wonderful @suzannefagence.bsky.social?

To book and for more details see the events page on our website- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org

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To commemorate Remembrance Sunday is this painting of peace, ‘Peace Concluded’, John Everett Millais, 1856. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Millais shows a wounded British officer reading The Times newspaper's report of the end of the Crimean War.

🖼️ ‘Hero Lighting the Beacon for Leander’, Edward Burne-Jones, 1877.

🖼️ ‘Hero’, Edward Burne-Jones.

🖼️ ‘Hero Awaiting the Return of Leander’, Evelyn De Morgan, 1885.

Happy Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night with Edward Burne-Jones and Evelyn De Morgan paintings of ‘Hero’ and her torch of light.

In the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, Hero, a priestess, uses a torch from her tower to guide her lover Leander as he swims across the Hellespont strait to meet her in secret.

Thanks so much to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for giving us a preview of the new Pre-Raphaelite galleries opening tomorrow! With four galleries there’s lots to see.

Which artworks are you excited to see?

The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite galleries are reopening tomorrow, after extensive building work.

The gallery is also celebrating a new acquisition, this Emma Sandys artwork, which was previously on loan.

Will you be visiting?

Opening tomorrow, the new Pre-Raphaelite galleries at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. After extensive renovations, these four galleries, with over sixty artworks on display, are reopening.

Are you excited to visit?

This talk accompanies a new exhibition curated by Suzanne for 2025-26 in Winchester.

Dr. Suzanne Fagence Cooper is a writer, broadcaster and curator with expertise in 19th and 20th century British art and culture.

Throughout their lives, they looked for ways to connect the domestic with their gardens, as they constructed beautiful patterns from honeysuckle, and roses. In his lecture, ‘Art and the Beauty of the Earth’, William urged his audience to take responsibility for their environment.

The designs created by William Morris and his daughter May abound with greenery and growing things. Orchards, hedgerows, kitchen gardens and wild woods all provided inspiration for their art and lectures.

November Lecture Alert:

‘The Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May and William Morris’

Given by @suzannefagence.bsky.social

13:00, Saturday 22nd November

The Birmingham and Midland Institute.

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Happy Diwali! To celebrate the Hindu, Jain and Sikh festival of light; depictions of stars twinkling in the night sky.

1. 🖼️ ‘Night’, Edward Robert Hughes.

2. 🖼️ Study for “The Hours” mural, Edwin Austin Abbey, 1897.

3. 🖼️ ‘Dantis Amor’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1860, @tate.bsky.social.

Black cats for this October #ThursdayTheme.

1. 🖼️’The Wine of Circe’, Edward Burne-Jones, 1863 - 1869.

2. 🖼️’Early Days’, John Everett Millais, 1873.

3. 🖼️’The Love Potion’, Evelyn De Morgan, 1903.

Thanks so much to @preraphsrule.bsky.social for giving our Founders Day Lecture on Christina Rossetti and Caring at the Birmingham and Midland Institute yesterday. Just after our annual AGM.

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Founders Day Lecture. | Pre-Raphaelite Soc Lecture to be given by Dr. Dinah Roe. Lecture title: 'The Humble Work': Connecting Care and Creativity in Christina Rossetti's Writing.

Are you joining us in Birmingham tomorrow for our AGM and Founders Lecture?

10:30- 13:30, Saturday 11 October at the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

‘The Humble Work’ : Connecting Care and Creativity in Christina Rossetti’s Writing by Dinah Roe

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#SongbirdSaturday, to celebrate a certain Swift releasing new music.

1. 🖼️ ‘Love’s Messenger’, Marie Spartali Stillman, 1885, Delaware Art Museum.

2. 🖼️ ‘Veronica Veronese’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1872, Del Art Museum.

3. 🖼️ ‘The Blessed Damozel’, Edward Burne-Jones, c.1856, Harvard Art Museums.

Many thanks to @serena-t.bsky.social for organizing this inspiring day. Meeting so many wonderful new scholars & hearing about their cutting-edge work was an absolute tonic for the weary academic soul. I am delighted to report that our discipline is in very good hands!

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