Dr Robert Wilkes
Art historian. Pre-Raphaelitism and other things.
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01 June 2020
F. G. Stephens's contributions to Rossetti's 'Ecce Ancilla Domini!'
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On the evening of 16 December 1849, Frederic George Stephens went to Dante Gabriel Rossetti's studio 'to do [Rossetti's] perspec...
04 May 2020
The stone and the brush: Drawing from nature
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This time two years ago, I arrived in Brazil for the first time. While in São Paulo I visited the Pinacoteca, which is to Brazilian art what...
08 April 2020
'Utterly vile as works of art': When British travellers met the 'Michelangelo of Brazil'
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The name Aleijadinho is not familiar to many people outside Brazil. It's the nickname given to Antônio Francisco Lisboa (1730/38–1814),...
06 April 2020
'Misery and splendour': Two Victorian travellers in Juiz de Fora
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This post concerns two British Victorian explorers who visited Brazil in the 1860s and 1870s – specifically the city of Juiz de Fora in the ...
09 March 2020
Remembering F. G. Stephens
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Rebecca Clara Dalton Stephens and Frederic George Stephens, 1890s, by an unknown photographer. Image courtesy of the Colonel Stephens Rail...
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