Book Reviews

Anderson, Anne, et al. Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy. Bristol: Sansom and Co, 2019. [Review by Pamela Gerrish Nunn]

Arscott, Caroline. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008 [Review by Antoine Capet]

Barringer, Tim. Reading the Pre-Raphaelites. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999. [Review by George P. Landow]

Batchelor, John. Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. London: Chatto & Windus, 2006 [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Bullen, J. B. Rossetti, Painter and Poet. London: Frances Lincoln, 2011. [Reviews by Laurent Bury and by Elizabeth Helsinger]

Bullen, J. B. Rossetti: Painter and Poet. London: Frances Lincoln, 2011. [Review by Elizabeth Helsinger]

Funnell, Peter, and Jan Marsh. A Guide to Victorian & Edwardian Portraits. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2011. [Review by Antoine Capet]

Daly, Nigel. The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life and Loves of Robert Bateman. London: Wilmington Square Books, 2014. [Review by George P. Landow]

Elzea, Betty. A Singular Man – A Documented Life of the Artist Frederick Sandys 1829-1904. Norwich: Unicorn Press, 2023. [Review by Paul Goldman]

Graham, Wendy. Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. [Review by Elizabeth Helsinger]

Harrison, Colin, and Christopher Newall, with essays by Maurizio Isabella and Martin McLaughlin. The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy. Oxford and Farnham: Ashmolean Museum in association with Lund Humphries, 2011. [Review by Antoine Capet]

Lynford, Sophie. Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites. [Review by Pamela Gerrish Nunn]

Rigby, Natalie, ed. The Legend of King Arthur: Pilgrimage, Place and the Pre-Raphaelites. Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2022. [Review by Pamela Gerrish Nunn]

Staley, Allen. The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement. New Haven (Conn.): Yale University Press, 2011. [Review by Antoine Capet]

Treuherz, Julian, with contributions by Kenneth Bendiner and Angela Thirlwell. Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer. London: Philip Wilson, 2011 [Review: "Challenging Genius" by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Walker, John A. "Work": Ford Madox Brown's Painting and Victorian Life. London: Francis Boutle, 2006. [Review by George P. Landow]

Walton, Paul H. The Drawings of John Ruskin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. [Review by George P. Landow]

Youde, Glenda, and Robert Wilkes, eds. Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Art, Poetry and Agency in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022 (Cultural Interactions, vol. 49). [Review by Pamela Gerrish Nunn]

Exhibitions and their catalogues

Barringer, Tim, Jason Rosenfeld and Alison Smith, with Contributions by Elizabeth Prettejohn and Diane Waggoner. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde. London: Tate Publishing, 2012. [Review by Antoine Capet]

MacCulloch, Laura. Pre-Raphaelite Treasures at National Museums Liverpool. Liverpool: University Press / National Museums Liverpool, 2013. [Review by Antoine Capet]

Newall, Christopher (with contributions by Christopher Baker, Conal Shields, and Ian Jeffrey. John Ruskin Artist and Observer. Ottawa: National Gallery of Ottawa; London Paul Holberton Publishing, 2014. [Review by George P. Landow]

Pre-Raphaelite Treasures: Drawings and Watercolours from the Ashmolean Museum at the Watts Gallery, Compton, 8 March - 12 June 2022. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

"Radical Victorians: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement" at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 10 February–31 October 2024. [Review by Simon Cooke]

"Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites." National Gallery: Exhibition 2 October 2017-2 April 2018. [Review by Madeleine Emerald Thiele]

The Rossettis, the Delaware Art Museum, 21 October 2023-28 January 2024. [Review by Dennis T. Lanigan]

The Rossettis: Radical Romantics, at Tate Britain, London, 6 April–24 September 2023. [Review by Simon Cooke]

Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2000 Exhibition at Tate Britain and catalogue. [Review by Diane J. Gamble]

Smith, Alison, ed. Edward Burne-Jones, Tate Britain exhibition 24 October 2018 - 24 February 2019, and catalogue [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Smith, Alison, and Jason Rosenfeld. Millais. Tate Britain: Exhibition 26 September 2007 – 13 January 2008 [Review by Antoine Capet]

"Uncommon Power": Catherine and Lucy Madox-Brown at the Watts Gallery, Compton, 28 September 2021 - 20 February 2022. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Waggoner, Diane. With essays by Tim Barringer, Joanne Lukitsh, Jennifer L. Roberts and Britt Salvesen. The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875. Washington, DC, and Farnham (UK): National Gallery of Art in association with Lund Humphries, 2010. [Review by Antoine Capet]


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