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People look at the two newly rediscovered paintings of Rembrandt at the Rembrandthuis (House of Rembrandt) in Amsterdam on May 9, 2018. The museum shows the paintings on loan from the New York collector couple Thomas S. Kaplan and Daphne Recanati Kaplan, who recently get hold of the paintings for their The Leiden Collection. Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP.
AMSTERDAM.- Two newly rediscovered paintings began a special visit to The Rembrandt House Museum on May 9th. Rembrandts Portrait of Petronella Buys (1635) and Man with a Sword (c. 1640-44), painted by Rembrandt and a member of his workshop, have not been on public view in decades. The two works were recently acquired by the New York collectors Thomas S. Kaplan and Daphne Recanati Kaplan, the founders of The Leiden Collection, which is one of the largest private collections of seventeenth-century Dutch art in the world. The rediscovery of these two paintings and their presentation in the Rembrandt House Museum reveal a fascinating story about the history of Rembrandt attribution and the importance of continuing research and technical investigation. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken at the Fesch municipal library of Ajaccio shows a letter signed by Napoleon in 1813 found at the Ajaccio library, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. A rare book on Egyptology, unpublished letters signed by Napoleon, a book signed by Gustave Eiffel on the "300-meter tower": It is in the modest Fesch library of Ajaccio that these forgotten treasures were discovered by chance in the last few months. PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP
| The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens the largest exhibition held to date on Chinese contemporary art | | The Museo del Prado is displaying a painting by Federico de Madrazo donated by Alicia Koplowitz | | Art Institute of Chicago presents projects that explore Chicago neighborhoods in post-war decades |
Wang Guangyi, Mao Zedong: Red Grid No. 2, 1988. Oil on canvas, 147 x 117 cm. M+, Sigg Collection, Hong Kong.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World , the largest exhibition held to date on Chinese contemporary art during the most transformative period in the countrys recent history, from 1989, the year of the Tiananmen protests, to 2008, when the Olympic Games were held in Beijing. Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the exhibition provides a fresh interpretive survey of Chinese experimental art in a context framed by the end of the Cold War, the spread of globalization, and the rise of China as a world power. The show is divided into six thematic and chronological sections, and encompasses a variety of artistic practices, including performance, painting, photography, installation, and video art as well as sociallyengaged projects. With a concentration on the conceptualist art practices of two generations of artists, this exhibition examines how Chinese artists have b ... More | |
From left to right: Miguel Falomir, director of the Museo Nacional del Prado; Almudena Ros, curator of the Colección Alicia Koplowitz; José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Head of the Board of Trustees Museo Nacional del Prado ; and Javier Barón, chief curator of XIXth Century Painting at the Museo Nacional del Prado. Photo © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado is presenting Portrait of Josefa del Ãguila y Ceballos, subsequently Marchioness of Espeja, donated to the Museum this April by Alicia Koplowitz, a member of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo del Prado. The painting is now on display in Room 62 B of the Villanueva Building. The sitter in Madrazos portrait is Josefa del Ãguila y Ceballos Alvaredo y Ãlvarez de Faria (San Sebastián, 16 February 1826 Madrid, 26 December 1888). In 1850 she married José MarÃa Narváez, 2nd Viscount of Aliatar, who two years later became the 2nd Duke of Valencia. From the date on the canvas it is known that she was 26 when the portrait was painted. This is one of the artists most important works from his mature period. Dated 1852, it is recorded in the painters ... More | |
Darryl Cowherd. Blackstone, Woodlawn/Chicago, 1968. The Art Institute of Chicago. Through prior gifts of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation and Anonymous. © Darryl Cowherd.
CHICAGO, IL.- From May 12 to October 28, 2018, the Art Institute of Chicago will present an exhibition highlighting Chicago artists who, through their photographs and films, reveal the unique character of the communities to which they belonged or were granted intimate access as outsiders. Representing remarkably diverse personal and public narratives about Chicagomost created outside of the citys dominant art communitiesthe work of these photographers and filmmakers weaves a poetic narrative about the city as it was transformed by cultural, social, and political events in a period stretching from the 1950s through the 1970s. Capturing that energy and complex character in bittersweet, lyrical prose, Nelson Algren wrote in his 1951 book Chicago: City on the Make: Once youve come to be part of this particular patch, youll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. ... More |
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| 2018 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize winners announced | | Beyoncé gifts stunning butterfly ring to the Victoria & Albert Museum | | John Singer Sargent is coming to the Georgia Museum of Art |
2018 Archibald Prize winner Yvette Coppersmith's Self-portrait, after George Lambert, oil and acrylic on linen, 132 x 112 cm © the artist. Photo: AGNSW, Jenni Carter.
SYDNEY.- Five-time Archibald Prize finalist Yvette Coppersmith has won the 2018 Archibald Prize and $100,000 for her work Self-portrait after George Lambert. Himself a winner of the 1927 Archibald Prize, Lambert is one of Coppersmith's favourite Australian artists. His style was academic, yet he supported the avant-garde in Australia and painted portraits of his artistic contemporaries Thea Proctor and Hera Roberts both independent, self-possessed style-makers at a time of burgeoning female empowerment, Coppersmith said. Over the past 21 years, Coppersmith has experimented widely with style and subject matter but she keeps returning to the self-portrait which she says allows her to work from life, with intense absorption in the painting process. Of her win, Coppersmith said, Hearing of the win this morning my mind was scrambling to integrate the surreal ... More | |
Papillon ring designed by G (Glenn Spiro) © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- Today, the V&A announced the gift of an exquisite papillon ring, generously donated by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. The ring, in the shape of a butterfly, was designed by London-based jeweller G (Glenn Spiro) in 2014. The star was photographed wearing the ring in a series of intimate pictures taken by her husband, rapper Jay Z. Glenn Spiros ingenious and exquisitely-crafted butterfly adorns the back of the hand as if poised for flight. Its delicate titanium wings are encrusted with vivid green tsavorites and edged with diamonds. They flutter with the movement of the wearers hand, radiating an exotic, shimmering beauty. The ring is an example of naturalism in contemporary fine jewellery. Spiros atelier is housed in the mirrorlined rooms that once belonged to royal couturier Norman Hartnell in Londons Mayfair. Spiro is famed for his vibrant and technically superb designs and his passion for ... More | |
Laura Coombs Hills (American, 1859-1952), Zinnias, Petunias and Delphinium in a Yellow Pottery Crock, n.d. Pastel on paper, 21 1/2 x 18 inches.
ATHENS, GA.- At the University of Georgia, the Terry name is synonymous with UGAs business school, but the influence of C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry extends far beyond that, including to the Georgia Museum of Art. Also on the campus of the university, the museum is the recipient of 14 paintings and works on paper from the Terrys collection that will be on view May 12 through August 5 in the exhibition A Legacy of Giving: C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry. Throughout her life, Mrs. Terry has focused her philanthropy on three areas: education, childrens charities and the arts. She has been a trustee of Jacksonville University and served on the boards of the Wolfson Childrens Hospital, the Childrens Home Society, the Salvation Army, the Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless and the Jacksonville Symphony. Mr. Terry graduated from what was then UGAs school ... More |
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| Sheeler, Hartley, and Nadelman lead American Art Sale at Bonhams New York | | Personalized portrait by Matisse leads Swann Print Auction | | Amy Sherald presents new and recent work for her first major solo museum exhibition |
Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974), Untitled (Abstract on White), Painted in 1940 (estimate: $7,000-10,000). Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announces the American Art sale on May 23, which will feature a strong selection of modern works. Among the artists featured in the sale are works by Charles Sheeler, Marsden Hartley, Elie Nadelman, Charles Green Shaw, John Marin, Thomas Moran, and Carl Ethan Akeley. With 56 lots offered and estimates ranging from under $10,000 to $100,000, the sale presents a fantastic opportunity for new and established collectors alike. The public exhibition will be open May 19 to 22. Appearing at auction for the first time is Architectural Cadences by Charles Sheeler, 1954, a Precisionist abstraction in the artists distinct style (estimate: $70,000-100,000). This work on paper was completed after the oil painting dually titled, Architectural Cadences, from 1954, which is currently in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Modeled after this original composition, it was a unique work reproduced as an edition ... More | |
Henri Matisse, Grand Masque, aquatint, inscribed to model Nadia Sednaoui, 1948. Sold May 8, 2018 for $87,500, a record for the work. (Pre-sale estimate: $50,000 to $80,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- With highlights spanning six centuries, Swann Galleries auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on May 8 offered works by the greatest innovators in the field. The sale totaled more than $2M. Leading the auction was a gift from Henri Matisse to one of his favorite models, Nadia Sednaoui. The evocative aquatint Grand Masque, 1948, a stylized portrait of the young woman, is signed and inscribed to her by the artist. It sold for $87,500, a record for the work. Another auction record was set for the artists 1938 linoleum cut Diane, at $20,000. Tête de femme, de profil, 1905, an early drypoint by Pablo Picasso at just 24 years old, reached $75,000. The portrait topped an extravagant selection of works by the master in a variety of media. The jaunty terre-de-faïence dish Goats Head in Profile, 1952, and color linoleum cut Le Vieux Roi, 1963, each exceeded their high estimates to sell for $21,250. Additional twe ... More | |
Amy Sherald, A clear unspoken granted magic, 2017. Oil on canvas, 54 Ã 43 inches. Collection of Denise and Gary Gardner. Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents new and recent paintings by Amy Sherald, the artists first major solo museum exhibition, on view May 11 through August 19, 2018. Until her recent commission to paint the official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, Sheralds subjects have been of African Americans she encountered during the routines of her day. Although the Obama portrait steps outside of the quotidian that has been central to Sheralds practice, Michelle Obama, not unlike the people Sherald meets in the grocery store, is the first member of her family to be the subject of a painted portrait. Whether the subject is famous or unknown, Sheralds practice emphasizes the power of a black persons image as seen in a gallery or museum, her portraiture rendering a transformative vision. Her art is a reflection on blackness, or as she says, My paintings hold up a mirror to the present and reflect r ... More |
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| Exhibition explores the elusive, complex phenomenon of color perception and how it has captivated artists | | Blum & Poe's first solo exhibition with artist Mimi Lauter opens in Los Angeles | | Online auction supporting amfAR launches on Paddle8 |
Poster, Blues Project, 1967; Designed by Victor Moscoso (Spanish, active USA, b.1936); offset lithograph on white wove paper; 51.2 x 37.5 cm (20 3/16 x 14 3/4 in.); Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Schreyer; 1979-34-39; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution. © Cooper Hewitt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is presenting Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color, an exhibition on view May 11 through Jan. 13 that explores the elusive, complex phenomenon of color perception and how it has captivated artists, designers, scientists and philosophers. Featuring over 190 objects spanning from antiquity to the present, the exhibition reveals how designers apply the theories of the worlds greatest color thinkers to bring order and excitement to the visual world. Color has been studied for centuries and yet there is still much to learn about its properties, said Caroline Baumann, director of the museum, From rare first editions of texts codifying color theory to iconic works from designers who are color masters, manipulating and ... More | |
Mimi Lauter, Sensus Oxynation (Apocalyptic Flood Allegory), 2017. Soft pastel, oil pastel on paper. Two parts; 35 1/4 x 115 1/2 inches, 72 x 115 1/2 inches. © Mimi Lauter, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe presents the gallerys first solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter. Entitled Sensus Oxynation, this presentation includes a twenty-four-part installation that functions as the interior of a chapeleach wall a grouping of lush, highly chromatic oil and soft-pastel works on paper. These arrangements of layered colors and swirling textures assemble abstracted narratives drawn from subconscious memory, literature, sociopolitical surroundings, and classical mythology. The results are expansive fields of unfurled myth-making. Using the concept prison of my senses, a phrase that came to Lauter in a dream and which inspired the title of the exhibition, the chapel addresses a secular relationship to spirituality in painting. A moonrise, a sunrise, and an apocalyptic flood are all depicted in panels in the main gallery, rousing universal ... More | |
Chris Martin, Bambú, 2018. Acrylic, oil, collage, and aluminum foil on canvas, 223.52 x 195.58 cm (88 x 77 in) Courtesy of the artist and Anton Kern Galley.
NEW YORK, NY.- Online auction supporting amfAR Gala Cannes lauches on Paddle8 featuring nine works by artists including Ai WeiWei, Rita Ackerman, Chris Martin, Robert Mapplethrope and Sterling Ruby, Joe Bradley, Andre Butzer and Bernar Venet. The sale will culminate at the annual gala in Cannes on Thursday, May 17 during the Cannes Film Festival. Alessandra Ambrosio, Poppy Delevigne, Linda Evangelista, Silvia Fendi, Aileen Getty, Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johansson, Milla Jovovich, Heidi Klum, Daphna Krim, Karolina Kurkova, Sienna Miller, Angela Missoni, Mary Parent, Katy Perry, Natasha Poly, Aishwarya Rai, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Carine Roitfeld, Caroline Scheufele, Irina Shayk, Lara Stone, Donatella Versace, and Michelle Yeoh are the Honorary Chairs of the 25th edition of amfARs world-renowned amfAR Gala Cannes. Event Chairs include Len Blavatnik, Milutin Gatsby, Michel Litvak, Alexandre Ricard, and ... More |
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit opens "Tal R : this is not Detroit"
DETROIT, MICH.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) announces : this is not Detroit, a solo exhibition by the Copenhagen-based artist Tal R. The intricate, multipart installation manifests the artists fantasy of Detroit, acting as a meditation on dream places, identity, and whimsy. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, July 29, 2018. Seven large-scale paintings, rendered in a rich and moody palate of blues, depict the artists vision of specific Detroit neighborhoods. The abstract works use primitive shapes and symbols to investigate the visual language of displacement and place. Waves, ships, and city buildings, drawn with short energetic brushstrokes, populate these insular worlds. The formal, hard-edged palette suggests that this world is perhaps sturdier than the one we can see around us. These unique imaginings invite viewers to reflect on Detroit ... More
In the Manner Of: A new art auction house specializing in attributions by fine art masters to hold its first sale
FRANKLIN, MASS.- A new specialty art auction house that deals exclusively in antique and vintage artworks created in the styles of master artists will hold its inaugural internet-only sale on Thursday, May 17th, with a live webcast that begins at 5:30 pm Eastern time. The firm is appropriately named In the Manner Of, and the catalog for the initial sale is online now at www.IntheMannerOf.com. Internet bidding is also being facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com. The 143-lot auction is filled with names that will be familiar to even casual fine art observers, such as Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Edvard Munch and Clade Monet superstars every one. But make no mistake: In the Manner Of makes it clear to everyone visiting ... More
Bronze and marble statues, Sevres and Dresden urns, more at Stevens' May 18-19 auction
ABERDEEN, MISS.- A gorgeous Prudence Mallard five-piece bedroom suite, a Sevres three-sided capped urn, a bronze sculpture of fighting bulls signed by the French artist Jean Baptiste Clesinger (1814-1883), a fully restored 1933 V-8 Cadillac in showroom condition, and a two-piece marble statue of a little girl and cat signed Napoleone Ruffini will all come up for bid. Theyre just a few of the expected top lots in a massive, two-day antique estate auction slated for Friday and Saturday, May 18th (at 5 pm Central) and 19th (10 am), by Stevens Auction Company, in the firms gallery at 609 North Meridian Street in Aberdeen, located south of Tupelo and north of Columbus, not far off of State Route 278, near the Alabama state line, in eastern Mississippi. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com. ... More
High demand for Norman Rockwell lifts Heritage Auctions' American Art Auction above $4.5 million
DALLAS, TX.- Nine works by Norman Rockwell and new auction records for seven artists drove Heritage Auctions May 4 American Art Auction in Dallas, Texas to $4,571,987.50 versus pre-sale estimates of $3,503,200-$5,237,800 (includes estimates of the unsold lots). The auction sold 96 percent by value and 91 percent by lot. Norman Rockwell is among the most beloved and important American artists of all time, Heritage Auctions Director of American Art Aviva Lehmann said. Art lovers of all levels and types can relate to the people in his paintings, which is why an auction like this one was such a success. Once in the private collection of late actor Debbie Reynolds, Norman Rockwell Ben Franklin's Sesquicentennial, The Saturday Evening Post cover, May 29, 1926 sold for $762,500. One of Rockwells most patriotic images, it was commissioned in celebration ... More
Junot Diaz quits as Pulitzer chairman over sexual misconduct claims
NEW YORK (AFP).- Award-winning and critically acclaimed US novelist Junot Diaz has stepped down as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board after being accused of inappropriate sexual conduct. Novelist Zinzi Clemmons confronted Diaz at a literary festival in Australia, before publicly accusing him of forcibly kissing her six years ago while she was a 26-year-old graduate student at Columbia University. Clemmons says the incident happened after she invited the Pulitzer winner to speak at a workshop while she was attending the Ivy League school. "He used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me," she tweeted. "I'm far from the only one he's done this 2, I refuse to be silent anymore." Short story author Carmen Maria Machado and novelist Monica Byrne have also taken to Twitter to accuse the Dominican-born novelist and university professor of being ... More
Exhibition showcases Anita Witek's photographic series based on two paintings by Egon Schiele
LONDON.- létrangère is presenting Artist and Muse, a solo exhibition by Austrian artist Anita Witek. Showcasing her photographic series based on two paintings by Egon Schiele a self-portrait and a portrait of his model and muse, Wally Neuzil this presentation was first shown at the Leopold Museum in Vienna earlier this year, where its collection of modern Austrian art is home to the worlds largest collection of works by Egon Schiele. For the exhibition at létrangère, Witek created a site-specific installation that includes a new set of photographs. Inspired by the tumultuous relationship between Schiele and his model and lover Wally Neuzil, Artist and Muse draws on historical documents and pre-existing visual forms. Witek uses as her source material the posters produced by the Leopold Museum for a display of two Egon Schiele paintings in its collection: ... More
Exhibition brings together the work of artist Mario Fonseca and photographer Mauricio Valenzuela
LONDON.- Austin / Desmond Fine Art announces Fragmented Dialogues, an exhibition in collaboration with CF-LART London that brings together the work of conceptual artist Mario Fonseca and photographer Mauricio Valenzuela. Both Fonseca and Valenzuela worked in Santiago, Chile, during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite two seemingly very different bodies of work, both artists intrinsically shared a strong dialogue around the notions of absence and prohibited identity. From 1972 until the early 1990s, a military dictatorship under the rule of Augusto Pinochet plunged Chile into total darkness and silence. People found safety in reclusion and anonymity for fear of being reported to a regime characterised by repression, as well as systematic arrests, tortures and disappearances. Hiding ones true nature, including all political thoughts ... More
Matthias Bitzer's first solo exhibition in London on view at Almine Rech Gallery
LONDON.- Almine Rech Gallery is presenting Sequences from a Volatile Now, Matthias Bitzers first solo exhibition in London. The exhibition consists of a series of new sculptural and wall works, which Bitzer conceives as a cohesive installation of disparate pieces. Employing a characteristic simultaneity of figurative elements and abstract forms, Bitzer continues his exploration of history and identity in muted paint on canvas, monochrome paint on wood, and metal sculpture. Bitzer constantly engages a range of material that challenges his thinking and drives his practice. The large-scale paintings in Sequences from a Volatile Now dissolve, however, explicit reference to historical figures. Distinct from the investigation of specific literary characters like Brecht or Pessoa who appeared in previous bodies of work, the visages in Sequences from a Volatile Now are ... More
Gladstone 64 opens an exhibition of a new series of cast bronze sculptures by Andrew Lord
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone 64 is presenting an exhibition of a new series of cast bronze sculptures by Andrew Lord. The works on view were most recently exhibited as part of the artists solo installation on the Bluhm Family Terrace at the Art Institute of Chicago. On unslumbrous night, Lord notes: This body of work began with an ending, when I left a studio of many years on the Bowery and went to Paris looking for something unknown, because Paris is where I have the clearest memory of finding something unknown in the 1970s. A mural in the Petit Palais, The Hours of the Day and the Night by Paul Baudouin, seemed to describe my search without a clear aim, spent assembling images that described the finality of time and the fragility of the human condition. Instead of the unknown, in Paris I re-discovered what Id found there once before; Corot, ... More
Royal Ontario Museum announces the Richard M. Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum announced the establishment of the Richard M. Ivey Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontologythe first endowed position of its kind in Canada. This prestigious and important new role will be held by the ROMs Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron, Senior Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology. We are very grateful to Richard Ivey for this leadership gift that will help unlock the full potential of the ROMs fossil collections, says Josh Basseches, ROM Director & CEO. This endowed curatorship will enable the ROM to further develop an ambitious range of engaging programs for the public, conduct original research, and provide unparalleled educational opportunities in one of our important areas of expertise. In addition to its well-known fossil vertebrate collections, including dinosaurs and mammals, the ROM holds ... More
Freeman's announces highlights from the "Design: Featuring the Collection of Perry & June Ottenberg" sale
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Monday, June 4, Freemans will host Design: Featuring the Collection of Perry & June Ottenberg. The 108 lot sale showcases a rich selection of American studio modern design, from marquee makers George (1905-1990) and Mira (b. 1942) Nakashima, Claude Conover (1907-1994), Harvey Littleton (1922-2013) and Dale Chihuly (b. 1941), as well as works by Hans Wegner (Danish, 1914-2007), Piero Fornasetti (Italian, 1913-1988) and René Lalique (French, 1860-1945). The sale also features a large assortment of porcelain by Rudolf Staffel (American, 1911-2002), furniture by Nakashima, James Camp (American, 1930-2008) and Walker Weed (American, 1918-2014), all from the Collection of Perry & June Ottenberg. Over the course of their 65 year marriage, Dr. Bernard Perry Ottenberg ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born May 12, 1828. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. In this image: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mnemosyne, 1876. © Private collection c/o Christie's Images Ltd., 2010.
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