A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage: The Lives and Works of Marie Spartali Stillman & William James Stillman
Автор:David B. Elliot Год: 2006 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 248 ISBN: 1851494952 Book DescriptionAs occasional model for no less than Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927) remains a well-known face of the Pre-Raphealite era. Born into a well-to-do Anglo-Greek family in London, she was greatly admired as one of ?The Three Graces?, alongside Aglaia Coronio and Maria Zambaco, and photographed several times by Julia Margaret Cameron. Her circle of close friends included, among others, William Michael Rossetti, Lucy Madox-Brown Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, George Frederick Watts, Jane Morris, the Ionides family, and James Abbott MacNeill Whistler. What few people now realise is that behind the enigmatic face lay talent and determination. A gifted artist in her own right, Marie persuaded her father to allow her to study under Ford Madox Brown. She was a prolific painter throughout her long career ? a career that she was determined to have in a time when women of her status were actively discouraged from doing...
