#frederick sandys
three studies of fanny eaton, a Black jamaican-born pre-raphaelite muse, by walter fryer stalks (first image) and frederick sandys (images two and three). she sat for numerous artists of the movement, including dg rossetti and simeon solomon, and is perhaps best known for being the sitter for sandys’ morgan le fay.
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ThePre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded in 1848 by seven young artists who banded together against what they felt was an artificial and mannered approach to painting taught at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Inspired by the theories of John Ruskin, who urged artists to ‘go to nature’, they believed in an art of serious subjects treated with maximum realism. Their principal themes were initially religious, but their later works largely focus on medieval subjects from literature and poetry privileging atmosphere and mood over narrative. Althought disolved in the 1850s, the movement gain a lot of attention and many followers continued to paint in their style.
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Bittersweet Fascination
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (known as Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904), English painter, draugthsman and illustrator.
Associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, but painting relatively little, he never became a popular painter.
He will apply himself, in his works, to transcribe the strength and sensuality of his female characters, often mythological, associated with the figure of the femme fatale, in an victorian artistic environment much more timid and restrictive.
(Oil paintings details. The pictures show, in order : Medea, between 1866 and 1868 ; Helen of Troy, 1867 ; Vivien, 1863 ; Grace Rose, 1866 ; May Margaret, between 1865 and 1866 ; Perdita, circa 1866 ; Isolda with the Love Potion, 1870 ; Mariya Magdalena, circa 1859 ; Love’s Shadow, 1867 ; Portrait of a Lady, probably Anne Simms Reeve of Brancaster Hall, Norfolk, 1870)
