19th Century Art
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The Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters poets and critics founded in 1848. They championed for a more traditional "natural" way of painting.
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Gericault & The Raft of the "Medusa"
Gericault a French Neo-Baroque painter is most known for this dramatic painting based on actual events.
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Artist Henri Patrice Dillon
Active from the late 1870s until his death in 1909, Dillon depicted studio, street, café and theater scenes in the medium of which he was a master: lithography.
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Elizabeth Siddal – Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse
Though she was a poet and artist in her own right, Lizzie Siddal is best known as the idealized model of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an Overview
The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood created a stir with their paintings and influence a lot of artists with their theme and ideas, the imagery they produced became famous.
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Avant-Garde – Towards Abstraction
Synthetism marks a move within avant-garde at the end of the19th century, towards art's autonomy based on purification of forms and independence of external influences.
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Avant-Garde – The Beginning
Realism was the first revolutionary art movement which openly and explicitly posed a challenge to the authorities and is regarded as the first avant-garde movement.
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Biography of the Russian Artist Ilya Repin
Repin brought the experience of the ordinary Russian into the picture. His work reflects the changing focus of culture in the years leading up to the 1917 revolution.
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A Good Night Hug
Mary Cassatt was a member of the Impressionist school. Unmarried and childless, she nevertheless painted tender and beautiful images of motherhood.
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The Life of Elizabeth Siddal
Lizzie Siddal was a lower-class London girl who never expected to be famous. But when she began modeling for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, her life changed forever.
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Profile of the Victorian Artist Richard Dadd
Richard Dadd is best known for his fairy paintings, but his facinating work encompasses so much more.
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Profile of Russian Artist Mikhail Vrubel
Vrubel is not so well known in the West, but the symbolist painter is one of Russia's great cultural icons.
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Corot's Ville d'Avray on a Postcard
A masterpiece of color and detail, Camille Corot's Impressionist landscape can be appreciated fully only in real life.
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Poe and Primitivism in Gauguin's Nevermore
While in Tahiti, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Gauguin created this sensuous portrait of a young native woman.
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John William Waterhouse's Painting 'Ophelia'
Ophelia, the doomed maiden of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, is the subject of this late Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece painted in 1889.
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Claude Monet and Giverny Garden
The life and art of French Impressionist painter Claude Monet after his move to Giverny in 1883.
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Claude Monet Years Before Giverny
Biography of Claude Monet before Giverny. Pioneer of French Impressionism, famous for Impression Sunrise and his Giverny garden.
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Subjects by Ingres and Courbet
What are the subjects doing in the paintings of these French artists and where can visitors see these paintings today?
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Korean Munjado Screen
Letters of early-19th-century Korean Choson Dynasty art screen resemble medieval historiated initials of illuminated manuscripts in their similar symbolic embellishments.
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Giovanni Segantini - a Short Biography
2008 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Segantini. London's National Gallery are exhibiting his work and that of his associates, the Divisionists.
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Paul Gauguin Life and Works
Biography of Paul Gauguin, leader of the symbolist movement in art, and exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts. Like Van Gogh, proponent of Post-Impressionism.
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Whistler's Nocturne Falling Rocket
James Whistler's suit against critic John Ruskin held that radical ideas in art ought not to be victim to unexamined attacks that denigrate the works to the public.
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John Constable's Tribute
Sir George Beaumont encouraged painters to view his private collection of Old Masters that he gathered after his exposure to the ideals of Joshua Reynolds.
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Naturalistic Self-Portraits
These self-portraits by European artists - Heemskerck from the 16th century and von Marées and Courbet from the 19th century - feature realism.
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The Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England began with Dante Rosetti, Holman Hunt and John Millais, who advocated a 'Truth to Nature' approach to art.
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