Who is your favourite Pre-Raphaelite artist and can you find and show me that painting you love of theirs plz?

Question

Okay you're allowed to like more than 1 artist of this genre btw.

I love John William Waterhouse's , Ophelia by the pond-http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=23 and
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's - Venus Verticordia - http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s173.rap.html

I know the painting you are talking about Lee that is gorgeous and thuy you create a clickable link by putting http:// infront of it by the way.

Answer 1

I would choose William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) and his painting The Scapegoat (1854), a painting in lurid colors, which always makes me laugh every time I look at it.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/pre-raphaelites/scapegoat.asp
Why? Well, Hunt was a deeply religious man who took John Ruskin's mantra "Truth to Nature" far too seriously, especially when painting biblical subjects . And most especially The Scapegoat.
The subject taken from the Bible describing the expulsion of a goat each year from the temple into the wilderness carrying with it the sins of the people.
To get "accuracy" - which was of course impossible to achieve - Hunt purchased a rare white goat in Jerusalem and travelled down to a deserted place on the Dead Sea shore called Osdoom. The goat wasn't a happy participant in the project. He died on the way home. So to finish the picture, Hunt bought a second goat whom he painted with his feet stuck in mud and salt brought back from the Dead Sea. . The Arabs who went with him into this desolate area, were so impressed with his bravery that they suggested he might like to become their Sheikh.
This picture was shown at the Royal Academy, London in 1856, where one critic remarked: " blinded by his intense sentiment... and his earnest desire to paint a scapegoat .. Mr. Hunt has forgotten to ask himself first, whether he could paint a goat at all"
See picture which is at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool, England and further details at http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/pre-raphaelites/scapegoat.asp
Also http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/aotm/displaypicture.asp?venue=&id=283

Answer 2

Dante Gabriel Rossetti is the bomb! His paintings displayed the same qualities of sensuality as his poetry, mixed with a dreamy mysticism. My favourite painting of his is "Beata Beatrix", which he painted of his wife Lizzie Siddall after she died. He was so griefstruck when she died that he buried his poems in her grave; then ten years later wanted to publish them and had her coffin exhumed to get the poems back! All Rossetti's paintings are beautiful, especially the later ones which he modelled on Janey Morris, the wife of writer William Morris.

I also like Burne-Jones and William Waterhouse.

Answer 3

I'm not super huge on the Pre-Raphealites, but I must say I am quite fond of William Holman-Hunt's illustration work. In particular, I am very fond of engravings that appeared in "The Lady of Shallot" and "The Beggar Maid" in Edward Moxon's illustrated volume of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems from 1857.

It's interesting to me not only because they are compelling images, but you can see the influence it must have on later art nouveau/art deco illustrators like Florence Harrison and Jessie M King to name but two.

Answer 4

Rossetti's "Flaming June, 1895" privat.ub.uib.no/bubsy/kvinne.htm


amazing execution of color, drapery, mood.