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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · May 30

Mab Paul, nudity and why Nymphs don't go in cupboards...

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#victorianart #preraphaelite #edwardiantheatre #victorianphotography

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · May 30

I was obviously having a funny turn! So many tableaux, so little time...

A Thruple, a Lemur and a Thigh Tattoo

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · May 16

It's about time we brought back tableaux vivants of Pre-Raphaelite art. And thigh tattoos. Probably not lemurs...

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#tableauxvivants #preraphaelite #brightyoungthing #1920s

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · May 7

What do Edwardian Super Star Gertie Millar and Taylor Swift have in common?

Read why fake nudes have been a problem long before AI...

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#edwardiantheatre #gertiemillar #celebrity #fakenudes #ai #twentiethcenturytheatre

Fake Nudes

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Apr 29

May Morris exhibition at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth this Summer...

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#maymorris #preraphaelite #artsandcrafts #embroidery

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Mar 28

The sad tale of Miss Etheline Dell, Fairy Queen....

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#nineteenthcenturyart #victorianwomenpainters #victorianwomenartists #fairypainting

The Fate of Fairies

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Mar 15

The trials of being the child of a superstar, Edwardian Edition...

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#edwardiantheatre #nepobaby #lewiswaller #florencewest #oscarwilde

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 21

A quick post on possibly the greatest male model ever...

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#preraphaelite #nineteenthcenturyart #twentiethcenturyart #malemodel #artistmodel

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 18

Half a brick, a locket and a suffragette...

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#suffragette #votesforwomen

Mrs Shepherd's Locket

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 13

Pre-Raphaelite-adjacent artist Robert Braithwaite Martineau died on this day in 1869...

Image: The Poor Actress's Christmas Dinner (c.1860)

#preraphaelite #victorianart #dotd

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 12

Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, known as Lillie Langtry, socialite and actress and 'Jersey Lily' died on this day in 1929...

Images: A Jersey Lily (1878) John Everett Millais and a 1882 photograph by Napoleon Sarony

#Victoriantheatre #victorianart #victorianbeauty #dotd

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 12

I'll see you in Winchester!

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Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social · Feb 11

Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social · Feb 11

A teaser for the exhibition I'm curating in Winchester.
Opening 15th Nov, we'll show the work of Jane & May alongside the art of #WilliamMorris.
It includes Jane as 'Blanzifiore' by D G Rossetti - a haunting portrait for early Spring.
www.hampshireculture.org.uk/event/beauty...

A bust-length oil painting of Jane Morris, holding snowdrops in one hand. She has three primroses tucked in her dark wavy hair, above her ear. Her green velvet dress is slipping slightly, showing the back of her neck and some of her shoulder. She looks towards the viewer, but does not meet our gaze.

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 11

Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet, Elizabeth Siddal died on this day in 1862...

Image: Portrait (1860) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#dotd #preraphaelite #preraphaeliteartist #preraphaelitepoetry #womenartists #victorianwomenartists

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 10

Pre-Raphaelite follower John William Waterhouse died on this day in 1917...

Image: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1893)

#preraphaelite #dotd #victorianart #preraphaeliteart #keats

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 7

Miss Gabrielle Ray and the perils of coming over a bit Pre-Raphaelite...

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#edwardiantheatre #victorianart#preraphaelite

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Feb 2

Artist and writer Georgiana Burne-Jones died on this day in 1920...

Image by Frederick Hollyer (c.1882)

The Very Uneventful Life of Emma Irlam Briggs

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Jan 31

Pre-Raphaelite-Adjacent artist Rosa Brett died on this day in 1882...

image: Catnap (1858)

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Jan 31

Emma Irlam Briggs was born on this day in 1867.

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Image: The Violinist (1893) from the collection of the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

#botd #victorianartist #victorianwomenartists #disabledartist #deafartist #victoriandisability

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Jan 30

The complicated world of art and biography and the life of Miss Dorothy Tennant.

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#Victorianartist #Victorianwomenartists #edwardianartist #edwardianwriter #historyiscomplicated #biographyiscomplicated

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Jan 27

Pre-Raphaelite-adjacent artist Arthur Hughes was born on this day in 1832.

Image: April Love (1856) which features his wife, Tryphena Foord

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Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Jan 26

And yet of massive importance in Rossetti's life and his continuing ability to create art in the 1870s. Such a shame.

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Jan 26

John Byam Liston Shaw, Neo-Pre-Raphaelite artist and originator of the Byam Shaw School of Art, died on this day in 1919...

image: Queen of Hearts (1896) featuring artists Evelyn Pyke-Nott and Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale

#dotd #neopreraphaelite #edwardianart #victorianart

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Jan 26

Pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron died on this day in 1879...

Image: The astonishingly gorgeous 'Iago' (1867) which remains one of the most beautiful nineteenth century photographs I've ever seen.

#dotd #victorianphotography #preraphaelitephotography #myvictorianboyfriend