Ophelia by John Everett Millais (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia ...

The Google Doodle for November 18 honors Fanny Eaton, a muse to the Pre-Raphaelites who helped redefine Victorian standards of beauty. Born in Jamaica on June 23, 1835, Eaton moved to London in the ...

Natalie Hegert on the real-life women who inspired some of the 19th century’s most enduringly popular art — set to star in July auctions. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith, 1867, watercolor ...

The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...

Dante Gabriel Rosetti was a pre-Raphaelite painter known for his portraiture and figure paintings. One model frequently seen in his works was Elizabeth Siddal. She was one of the most notable models ...

As far as the influential 19th century British critic John Ruskin was concerned, there was little hope for you if you didn’t admire the Pre-Raphaelites. Among spectators, he wrote, “none but the ...

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...