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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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Embracing Autumn, open armed and excited, for today’s #TuesdayThought.

1. 🖼️ ‘Autumn Leaves’, John Everett Millais, 1856.

2. 🖼️ ‘Autumn’, William Stott, c.1898.

3. 🖼️ Detail from ‘An English Autumn Afternoon’, Ford Madox Brown, 1854.

Thanks to everyone that came and contributed to the Pre-Raphaelite study day yesterday.

Fascinating day and great to see so much energy, enthusiasm and expertise in the field of Pre-Raphaelite studies.

Just a reminder of the conference tomorrow

‘Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now? Contemporary interventions in art and literature’.

Date and Location: starting at 9am, Sat 20 Sept 2025, Birmingham and Midland Institute, UK.

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🖼️ 🚨 ART HISTORY NEWS: One of Evelyn DeMorgan’s Gold Drawings, thought lost, has been found! Edith Charlesworth tells us about the identification process behind her discovery in the Summer Issue of the PRS Review, hot off the press.

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#SwiftieSunday- a trio of posts of Taylor album covers and our Pre-Raphaelite pairings.

Taylor Swift’s first track on ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ is ‘Fate of Ophelia,’ and with this cover we can see the Millais and Pre-Raphaelite references clearly.

🖼️ ‘Ophelia’, John Everett Millais, 1851-52, Tate.

From one poet to another, we think Christina Rossetti and Taylor Swift would get along, have lots of feminist thoughts to share and of course a lengthy discussion of her ‘Tortured Poets Department’ album.

🖼️ ‘Christina Rossetti in a Rage’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Wightwick Manor & Gardens.

#SwiftieSunday- a trio of Taylor album covers posts and our Pre-Raphaelite pairings.

The depiction of Christina in a rage, due to a review of her poetry in The Times, works well with Taylor’s ‘Reputation’ album and its themes of scrutiny and press attention on women.

Yes, we did include her name on our other platforms, just due to the length of the text on this app we had to take it out, but thanks for correcting us.

Calling all Pre-Raph researchers: event Sept 20th in Birmingham to bring together doctoral students & academics, curators & writers to share their research & discuss 'Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now?' tinyurl.com/mrxs4cr5
#preraphaelite #art #victorian #literature @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social

#FelineFriday today for #InternationalCatDay.

1. 🖼️ ‘The Awakening Conscience’, William Holman Hunt, 1853, @tate.bsky.social

2. 🖼️ ‘Old Woman by the Fire’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1846, Wightwick Manor & Gardens.

3. 🖼️ ‘The Love Potion’, Evelyn De Morgan, 1903, @demorganfoundation.bsky.social.

New Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition Announcement!

At Perth Art Gallery, ‘Millais in Perthshire’, explores the relationship between Millais and Perthshire, Scotland. The exhibition is the result of a long-term loan of a private collection of 300 artworks belonging to the artist and his wife.

Happy World Embroidery Day with some Morris Magic.

1. 🖼️ ‘Poesis’, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, C.1880, @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social.

2. 🖼️ ‘Bed-Hangings’, 1917, May Morris, @cranbrookartmuseum.bsky.social

3. 🖼️ ‘The Forest’, tapestry, William Morris, 1887, V&A.

🖼️ ‘Louisa Ruth Herbert’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1858-59.

🖼️ ‘Louisa Ruth Herbert’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1858.

🖼️ ‘Louisa Ruth Herbert’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1858.

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Born Louisa Ruth Maynard, she made her London debut in 1855 at the Strand Theatre. She eventually became the manager of the St James’s Theatre, London, in 1864 for four years, and hired the then little-known Henry Irving as her leading man and assistant stage manager at the theatre.

Today’s Art UK #OnlineArtExchange theme is film and cinema, so we are raising the red velvet curtain on the Victorian actress Louisa Ruth Herbert (1831-1921).

An actress and manager, she was also a model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sat for him often between 1858 and 1860.

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🖼️ ‘The English Boy’, Ford Madox Brown, 1860.

🖼️ ‘The White Mayde of Avenel’, Frederick Sandys, 1902.

🖼️ ‘Portrait of a Girl (Sophie Gray)’, John Everett Millais, 1857.

#StaringSaturday, we are staring at you until you submit an abstract for the next round of the Pre-Raphaelite Graduate Network Scheme, to deliver a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation on your current research.

The deadline to submit your abstract is Fri 18 July to PRSgraduatenetwork@gmail.com.

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🖼️ ‘Ophelia’, John William Waterhouse, 1894.

🖼️ ‘The Haunted Wood’, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, 1856, Wightwick Manor & Gardens.

🖼️ ‘Gardening (Spring)’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1864.

#ThursdayTrees, Pre-Raphaelite arboreal artworks.

We are celebrating trees as the Woodland Trust describes them as ‘the ultimate multi-taskers in the fight against climate change.’ The UK’s woodlands store one billion tonnes of carbon in trees, dead wood, leaf litter and soil!

🖼️ ‘Influences’, Henry John Stock, 1905.

🖼️ ‘The Red Apple’, Henry John Stock.

🖼️ ‘Fire and the Sea’, Henry John Stock, 1912.

We are adding a new artist to our virtual gallery today - Henry John Stock - who drew inspiration from the Symbolists and the Pre-Raphaelites. Stock celebrated the feats and fancies of the imagination in his art. #TuesdayThoughts …

Magic and Midsummer: celebrating the season of summer today.

1. 🖼️’Midsummer Eve’, Edward Robert Hughes, 1908.

2. 🖼️ ‘Midsummer’s Eve: A Reverence to Roses’, John Henry Lorimer, 1905, National Trust for Scotland.

3. 🖼️ ‘Hermia and Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, John Simmons, 1870.

Hi I’m Dr. Serena Trowbridge and for my final social media takeover post today, I wanted to share about an exciting new role, and the first of its kind- Professor of Pre-Raphaelite Studies- and how inspired I am by the current diversity of research and scholars involved in the field.

3. 🖼️ I love everything about William Morris, and I love this poem, from The Earthly Paradise. The speaker is almost Morris, who was of course never idle, and this verse tells you the things poetry can’t do-

‘Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing,
I cannot ease the burden of your fears, ’