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Kirsty Stonell Walker
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Art historian, author, lemon-drizzle queen and Fanny Cornforth's Ride or Die. Author of 'Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang,' 'Stunner:The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth' and 'Light and Love,' and a couple of novels.
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Mab Paul, nudity and why Nymphs don't go in cupboards...

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#victorianart #preraphaelite #edwardiantheatre #victorianphotography
May 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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May Morris exhibition at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth this Summer...

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#maymorris #preraphaelite #artsandcrafts #embroidery
April 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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The trials of being the child of a superstar, Edwardian Edition...

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#edwardiantheatre #nepobaby #lewiswaller #florencewest #oscarwilde
March 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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A quick post on possibly the greatest male model ever...

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#preraphaelite #nineteenthcenturyart #twentiethcenturyart #malemodel #artistmodel
February 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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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
February 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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
February 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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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
February 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Pre-Raphaelite follower John William Waterhouse died on this day in 1917...

Image: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1893)

#preraphaelite #dotd #victorianart #preraphaeliteart #keats
February 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Miss Gabrielle Ray and the perils of coming over a bit Pre-Raphaelite...

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#edwardiantheatre #victorianart#preraphaelite
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Artist and writer Georgiana Burne-Jones died on this day in 1920...

Image by Frederick Hollyer (c.1882)
February 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Pre-Raphaelite-Adjacent artist Rosa Brett died on this day in 1882...

image: Catnap (1858)

#dotd #preraphaelite #preraphaelitewomenartists #victorianwomenartists
January 31, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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The complicated world of art and biography and the life of Miss Dorothy Tennant.

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#Victorianartist #Victorianwomenartists #edwardianartist #edwardianwriter #historyiscomplicated #biographyiscomplicated
January 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Pre-Raphaelite-adjacent artist Arthur Hughes was born on this day in 1832.

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

#botd #preraphaelite
January 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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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
January 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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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
January 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Embroiderer and model Jane Burden Morris died on this day in 1914.

images: Reverie (1868) Dante Gabriel Rossetti and one of the 1865 photographs by John R Parsons, taken for Rossetti.

#dotd #preraphaelite #preraphaelitewomen #preraphaelitewomenartist #artsandcrafts #embroidery
January 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Frederic, Lord Leighton died on this day in 1896...

Image: Flaming June (1895) from the collection of Museo de Arte de Ponce

#dotd #nineteenthcenturyart #victorianart
January 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was born on this day in 1872...

image: If One Could Have That Little Head of Hers (1900-09) from the collection at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth.

#botd #preraphaelite #neopreraphaelite #victorianwomenartists #edwardianwomenartists
January 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Edwardian actress Gabrielle Ray and Frederick Sandy's 1867 painting 'Love's Shadow' which features actress Mary Emma Jones...

#artandtheatre #Victorianart #Edwardiantheatre
January 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM