Celebrating the blossoming weekend for this #FridayFeeling .

🖼️ ‘Almond Blossom’, John William Waterhouse.
🖼️ ‘Washerwomen’, Alice Havers, Walker Art Gallery.
🖼️ ‘A Song of Spring’, Frederick James Shields.

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Take a listen (pre-raphaelitesociety.org/podcast); you may have noted the wider relevance to women in the 19c but (e.g.) what about the role of water here (baptismal?). Thoughtful discussion.

Dr Zaynub Zaman PreRaphaeliteSociety It's an absolutely stunning issue, Zaynub, and what a debut! Congratulations! Thank you so much for the care you took in publishing my poem, I'm so proud to be part of your inaugural issue. 🎨📖🖌️

#SpecialIssueSaturday This is a call for papers for our magazine, The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, Autumn/Winter Issue, entitled ‘Pre-Raphaelites on the Global Stage’.

Deadline for Submissions is Noon GMT, 1st September. Email your interest to [email protected].

Swathed in silk, our Spring Issue is here!!

Inside: pomegranates, pattern-designs, prophecies, paintings, and poems.

#preraphaelite #rossetti #victorian #arthistory #prb #editorsdesk #FridayFeeling #hotoffthepress

LIVE NOW! It is a pleasure to welcome Rocío Moyano Rejano to the podcast. Rocío studies the depictions and legacies of Shakespeare's heroines. In this episode she discusses the longstanding cultural impact of Ophelia and how various Pre-Raphaelite artists engaged with her story.

Honoured to be invited to talk tomorrow. Thank you 😊

Obituary for my friend & 'troublemaker' Mar Dixon. Difficult to write as she did so much, impossible to include everything. I hope I've captured some of what made Mar such a special person & the positive influence she had on museums & people
Museums Association
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#SunshineSunday , brightening up the weekend with bunches of daffodils.

🖼️ ‘Olive Margaret Slaughter’, Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, 1899.

🖼️ ‘Narcissus’, John William Waterhouse, 1912.

🖼️ ‘Jealousy’, Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, Laing Art Gallery.

#OTD in 1910, Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt died aged 83, later buried at St Paul's. You can visit his tomb in our Crypt or find out more about one of his most popular paintings 'The Light of the World' during an online talk 8 Sept or 4 Nov.