Browning and the Pre-Raphaelites
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See also my article “Browning and the Pre-Raphaelites”, Victorian Literature and Culture, 23 (1995), 117–45.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Robert Browning
Watercolour, 1855 (Fitzwilliam Museum).
John Brett, Florence from Bellosguardo
Oil on canvas, 1863 (Tate Britain). Browning’s “Old Pictures in Florence” “always floated uppermost in my memory when I was painting the picture and directly determined its character”.
Arthur Hughes, The Guarded Bower
Oil on canvas, 1866 (Bristol Museums and Art Gallery). The inscription on the frame (from Robert Browning’s “Count Gismond”) reads “Over my head his arm he flung/ Against the world”.
Elizabeth Siddal, Pippa Passes
Pen and brown ink, 1854 (Ashmolean Museum)
John Butler Yeats, Pippa Passes
Watercolour and mixed media, 1869-72 (National Gallery of Ireland)
Arthur Hughes, Aurora Leigh’s Dismissal of Romney (The Tryst)
Oil on panel, 1860 (Tate Britain). From Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh.
Joanna Boyce Wells, Thou Bird of God
Oil on cardboard, 1861 (private collection). From Robert Browning’s “The Guardian-Angel: A Picture at Fano”).
William De Morgan, James Lee’s Wife
Line drawing from a notebook
John Byam Shaw, Hist, said Kate the Queen
Pen and ink, 1897 (Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries). From Robert Browning’s Pippa Passes.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Torello’s First Sight of Fortune
Ink on paper, 1849 (Tate Britain). From Book 4 of Robert Browning’s Sordello.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, . . . this devil’s smithy/Which is the poison to poison her, prithee? (The Laboratory)
Watercolour, 1849 (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)
Edward Burne-Jones, Love Among the Ruins
Oil on canvas, 1894 (The National Trust)
Edward Burne-Jones,
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Pen and ink with wash, 1861 (The Higgins, Bedford)
John Butler Yeats, In a Gondola
Gouache, 1870s (Private collection). Inscribed: “Care not for the cowards! Care/ Only to put aside thy beauteous hair/
My blood will hurt!”).
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale,
If One Could Have that Little Head
Watercolour, body colour and gold ground on paper, 1900-09 (Russell-Coates Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth).
From Robert Browning’s “A Face”.