Artist Collectives: Pre-Raphaelites Talk 2

This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom.
Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential.

The second of two talks by Martin Beek that focus on Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces in the Ashmolean's collection and the city of Oxford in the Brotherhood’s development and patronage.

The highly original depiction of the natural world and ‘truth to nature,’ single out the Pre-Raphaelites and their widening circle from other Victorian artists.

As the group developed, each of its principal protagonists developed in different and exiting ways. Holman Hunt seeking new and truthful expression in his biblical paintings by travelling to Palestine in 1854. Rossetti developed his original and poetic watercolours and Millais intensely beautiful paintings of the later 1850s are significant.