John Everett Millais

An artist in her own right: the genius of Elizabeth Siddal

22 February 2025 9:00 am

Her imaginative, edgy sketches, though lacking technical expertise, often look beyond their time to a post-naturalist, symbolist era

Stimulating little exhibition: Scent and the Art of the pre-Raphaelites reviewed

23 November 2024 9:00 am

Scent and the Art of the pre-Raphaelites… there’s an obvious problem here: how do you represent one sense by another?…

Cecily Parsley makes cowslip wine, illustration from‘Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes’ by Beatrix Potter

The art of Beatrix Potter

12 December 2015 9:00 am

Her best illustrations — limpid, ethereal, carefully observed — are masterly works of art in their own right, argues Matthew Dennison

Poor, poor Effie: Dakota Fanning

Effie Gray can effie off

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Effie Gray, which has been written by Emma Thompson and recounts the doomed marriage of Victorian art critic John Ruskin…