King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid - Burne-Jones

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/burne-jones-king-cophetua-and-the-beggar-maid-n01771

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPb5zeXTsSE&feature=bf_next&list=EC6D4115FA125E542C

The Vale of Rest - Millais

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-the-vale-of-rest-n01507/text-summary - 'Of all the pictures that Millais created, this was his favourite'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20n0i2KQRCs&feature=bf_next&list=EC6D4115FA125E542C&index=13

Claudio and Isabella - William Holman Hunt

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hunt-claudio-and-isabella-n03447/text-summary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j13InegUPk&feature=edu&list=PL6D4115FA125E542C

Ellen Terry ('Choosing') - GF Watts

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw06269/Ellen-Terry-Choosing?LinkID=mp04458&role=sit&rNo=0

'This delicate yet sensuous portrait shows the seventeen-year-old Ellen Terry choosing between the camellias, which despite their luscious appearance have little scent, and the violets in her hand which are far humbler in appearance but smell sweeter. The choice, which is symbolic of that between worldly vanities and higher virtues, had a personal significance for the artist and the sitter.'

PRB Art on Pinterest

http://pinterest.com/harrisjulieg/art-pre-raphaelite/

Agnostic Prayer

"‘And if this food comes as a gift from some divine intelligence we understand that an intelligent being cannot blame us for questioning its existence. Nobody knows, nobody can know, if any deity is watching over us. Amen.’"

JW Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse - Cleopatra, 1888. Oil on canvas 

Pre-Raphernalia: Introductions!

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After Albert

Dec 1861 - Albert dies (aged 42)

Osborne House, Isle of Wight

Victoria lost her father aged 8 months?

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The Death of Prince Albert

1861 - US Civil War begins

1861 - Victor Emanuel II - first king of a United Italy

1861 - Italy is united

1861 - roughly 4 million African Americans in the US?

March 4 1861 - Lincoln sworn in as President

'The Trent Affair'  aka 'Mason and Slidell Affair'

'General Grant beat Lee at Gettysburg in 1863'

Duchess of Kent - Victoria's mother

Ophelia (1862) by WIliam Gale

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/352795/Gale-William-1823-1909/Ophelia-1862-oil-on-panel

Ophelia or Evangeline (oil on panel)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/201381/Gale-William-1823-1909/Ophelia-or-Evangeline-oil-on-panel

Falstaff Examining his Recruits from Henry IV by Shakespeare, 1730

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/47518/Hogarth-William-1697-1764/Falstaff-Examining-his-Recruits-from-Henry-IV

Thisbe - Waterhouse

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/48469/Waterhouse-John-William-1849-1917/Thisbe

The Tempest - NFS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/elizabeth-searle-as-miranda-103887 - Elizabeth Searle as Miranda  - John Opie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/emma-hart-17651815-as-miranda - Emma Hart (Lady Hamilton), as Miranda - George Romney

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/ferdinand-and-miranda-90257 - Ferdinand and Miranda (from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest') - Frederick Richard Pickersgill

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/prospero-and-miranda-98425 - Prospero and Miranda by Frederick Richard Pickersgill

 http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O124644/ferdinand-ariel-prospero-and-miranda-oil-painting-stothard-thomas/ - Ferdinand, Ariel, Prospero and Miranda (ca. 1789) - Thomas Stothard - 'An oil painting depicting Ferdinand's arrival on Prospero's island, Act I, Scene 2 of The Tempest.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/prospero-and-miranda-149257 - Henry Thomson

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/181771/Waterhouse-John-William-1849-1917/Miranda-1916-oil-on-canvas - Miranda - JW Waterhouse

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1832 (Whigs) , 1867 (Conservatives) , 1884 (Liberals) - Year of major Reform Acts

Disraeli - 'born Jewish but converted to Christianity'

Disraeli - 'consummate oppourtunist'

John Bright - Liberal MP

Sweetest eyes that were ever seen..., 1881 (oil on canvas)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/68046/Millais-Sir-John-Everett-1829-96/Sweetest-eyes-that-were-ever-seen...-1881

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

http://www.museoarteponce.org/coleccion_gal/the-pre-raphaelite-vision/2/44/26/1/

The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon


http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/moving-sir-edward-coley-burne-jones-sleep-arthur-avalon-puerto-rico-london

The Winter's Tale

Why, that was when
Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death,
Ere I could make thee open thy white hand,
And clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter.
"I am yours for ever - Leontes




POLIXENES
What means Sicilia?
HERMIONE
He something seems unsettled.
POLIXENES
How, my lord!
What cheer? how is't with you, best brother?

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1856 - The second Opium War  - The Arrow War

China v Britain and France

French missionary killed in China.

Chinese officials board the British ship 'The Arrow'.

Conflict lasts four years.

1839 - 1842 - The first Opium War, Hong Kong ceded to Britain

October 1856 - The Chinese board 'The Arrow'

French and British join forces to defeat the Chinese.

Victor Emanuel II - King of Piedmont

Garibaldi and his 'red shirts'

Palmerstone's Foreign Secretary - Lord John Russell

1860 - Garibaldi leads the 'red shirts'

Russell compares Garibaldi to King William III.

Rossetti

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24140?docPos=2 - Rossetti

Rossetti was born in London - 12 May 1828

'His admiration for William Blake stemmed from his purchase of a Blake notebook from a British Museum attendant in 1847. - ODB

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/eve_of_stagnes.aspx - eve of St. Agnes by Holman Hunt impresses Rossetti

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-the-girlhood-of-mary-virgin-n04872 - Girlhood of Mary - ' This was Rossetti’s first completed oil painting and the first picture to be exhibited with the initials ‘PRB’, for Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, inscribed on it.'

'Rossetti was the first to sign a work with the initials P.R.B. His Girlhood was sent to the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park in 1849, where the initials were ignored but the painting was a success' - ODB

Rossetti met Elizabeth Sidall in 1850 - ODB

Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/rossetti/works/dante/beatrice.aspx - Lizzie Siddal serves as the model for Beatrice

The Return of Tibullus to Delia - http://www.bmagprints.org.uk/image/331215/dante-gabriel-rossetti-the-return-of-tibullus-to-delia-figure-study

Dante Drawing an Angel - http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/136163/Rossetti

Found

The Annunciation

Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation) (1849-1850) - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-ecce-ancilla-domini-the-annunciation-n01210

'A long friendship between Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones was initiated in 1856 ' - ODB

Bocca Baciata - http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/bocca-baciata-lips-that-have-been-kissed--34360 - Fanny Cornforth is the sitter.

'A setback occurred in April 1861, however, when Elizabeth Siddal gave birth to a stillborn child. The evidence suggests that she suffered from postnatal depression - ODB

'Though Rossetti had a melancholy side, he was also open, warm, and charismatic. With men he seems to have been companionable rather than competitive - ODB

'Rossetti's art work features prominently in many public collections in Britain. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has perhaps the largest collection, but the Tate has a large number of items, as do the British Museum; Manchester City Art Galleries; the Fitzwilliam Museum.. and the Ashmolean Museum. Abroad, the Fogg Art Museum... has a distinguished collection. The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft collection at Wilmington, Delaware, holds many items connected with Rossetti and his life.' - ODB

Tumblr Paintings

'Mother and Child' - Frederic George Stephens - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stephens-mother-and-child-n04634

Flaming June (ca. 1895) - Frederic, Lord Leighton - http://www.museoarteponce.org/coleccion_gal/encounters-with-europe/2/44/1/1/

The Muse Erato at her Lyre (1895)John William Godward

Sappho (1903) - John William Godward

Fear - Marie Euphrosyne Spartali (later, Marie Spartali Stillman) - Red chalk on paper - c. 1870

Miranda - Thomas Francis Dicksee 

Juliet (1877) - Thomas Francis Dicksee

Portrait of a Lady - Sir Frank Dicksee 

John Singleton Copley, Venus and Cupid, c. 1779

Bartolomeo Manfredi - Allegory of the Four Seasons, 1610. Oil on canvas

William Bouguereau - Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros, 1880. - http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=584

Miranda (1868)  - Sandys 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hamlet and Ophelia - Compositional Study (1865) - http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1904P401/hamlet-and-ophelia-compositional-study/#related

Ophelia (1863-1864) by Arthur Hughes

In Realms of Fancy (1911)  - John William Godward

The Return of Persephone (1891) - Frederic Leighton  - http://www.leedsartgallery.co.uk/gallery/listings/l0033.php

The End of the Quest (1921) - Sir Frank Dicksee

Queen Eleanor 1858 Painting by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys - http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_works&item=685&type=artist

Ophelia, 1861 - Thomas Francis Dicksee

 Miranda - Dicksee 

The Birth of Venus - Cabanel

Pandora, 1873 - Cabanel 

Lady Tennyson on Afton Downs, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight - Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Goya

'Francisco de Goya was the last of the Spanish Old Masters. He is best known for works depicting the grotesque consequences of war and the dark side of humanity.' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/francisco-de-goya

Goya - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/goya/hd_goya.htm

Born in 1746

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Gladstone's ambitions as Chancellor are thwarted by the onset of the Crimean War.

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02535/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=1 - William Ewart Gladstone - Heinrich Müller

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02536/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=5   - William Ewart Gladstone -  George Frederic Watts

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02538/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=14 - Gladstone - Sir John Everett Millais

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02541/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&wPage=1&role=sit&rNo=39 - Alfred Edward Emslie

1854 - Crimean War

1833 - Slavery abolished throughout the Empire

1852 - Gladstone is Chancellor

Disraeli lived at No 11 Downing Street.

Disraeli doesn't give Gladstone the Chancellor's robe.

1809 -  Gladstone was born

1852 - Gladstone destroys the budget speech of Disraeli.

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A period of bloody fighting marks the founding of the Imperial Raj in India.

1857 - Indian Mutiny

1600 - East India Company founded by Royal Charter

'Dutch East Indies in Suuth East Asia'

1663 - East India Company retreats to Bengal

'Clive of India' - wins Batlle of Plassey

1756 - 1763 - Seven Years War

James Ramsay - Governor General of India

'Lucknow'

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Palmerston

The controversial politician becomes Prime Minister at the age of 71.

1855 - Earl of Aberdeen's coalition falls. Palmerstone was Home Secretary.

Palmerstone was Lord Grey and then Melbourne's Foreign Secretary.

Palmerstone was Lord John Rusell's Foreign Secretary.

Victoria called Palmerstone  'Pilgerstein'.

Victoria ends up liking Palmerstone.

Victoria loved Melbourne.

'Sidney Herbert' - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ap&npgno=1639&eDate=&lDate=

Palmerstone establised an inquiry into the Crimean War (?).

1858 - Palmerstone wins the election.

 http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw04848/Henry-John-Temple-3rd-Viscount-Palmerston?LinkID=mp03436&search=sas&sText=henry+temple&role=sit&rNo=8 - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Still Life - The Horrors

Under a sky, no one else sees,
Yourself appears in front of me
The sky clear, the sun hits, i'm here
Waiting, what's happening.
The moment that you want is coming if you give it time