Every day, Wilmingtonians encounter legacies of the Bancroft family. Samuel Bancroft Jr. (1840-1915) and William Bancroft (1835-1928) radically reshaped Wilmington by preserving public green space, ...
Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ painting The Blind Girl (1854–56) shows two girls sitting in a bright green meadow with a double rainbow in the background. While the younger girl stares ...
Mark Samuels Lasner, who collects and studies Victorian and pre-Raphaelite books and art, will deliver this year's Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture in English Literature at 6 p.m. Thursday. His talk ...
In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...
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The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...
An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London explores 12 women’s contributions to the male-dominated artistic circle Nadine Daher and Lily Katzman The women of the Pre-Raphaelite ...
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