The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

The author of today’s poem is, yes, that William Morris, late of the British Arts and Crafts movement and the Socialist League, and whose friends were the Pre-Raphaelite painters and poets.

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A brotherhood of English 19th-century artists enamoured with the past became inspired by art from the early Renaissance and ...