The prosperity of the Victorian era (1837-1901) transformed the British art world from a small group of artists who painted for the nobility into a robust community of artists who were free to create ...

The questions raised in “Victorian Radicals,” a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), manifest in the vivid juxtaposition of two objects at the show’s third-floor entrance: a ...

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in England in 1848, was one of the first art movements to adopt a name and a manifesto, a strategy that morphed into the many “isms” of the 20th century. Alas, ...

Today’s Google Doodle in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand celebrates Fanny Eaton; one of the faces that helped redefine Victorian beauty standards. Fanny Eaton was born in Surrey, Jamaica on July 13 ...

A Beguiling Work by Millais Leads Single-Owner Sale of Victorian Art at BonhamsLondon – Il Penseroso by Sir John Everett Millais (British, 1829-1896) leads Bonhams' sale of The Guy Bailey Collection ...

The 19th Century Paintings department sells a rich and diverse range of paintings by the leading British and European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The department holds four sales a ...

In addition to scientific specimens, the Princeton Natural History Museum collected artwork to contextualize its holdings and illustrate the flora and fauna of the ancient world. Displayed high above ...

An undated view of the Seven Hills of Bonn by Josephine Butler, who campaigned for sex workers' rights and pushed Parliament to raise the age of consent Courtesy of Ewbank's Auctions Josephine Butler ...

What can molecular biology majors learn from Manet? Can Cézanne change the way English graduate students and undergraduate engineers approach their fields? While students in both courses examined ...

In the artist’s New York gallery debut at Chart, her carnivorous plants upend the agendas of their 19th-century inspirations. Kate Bickmore, Hypnotic Transference of Luminous Life (2024). Courtesy the ...