The Pre-Raphaelites: v. 5 (Character Sketches)

by JanMarsh (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.28

  The National Portrait Gallery's Character Sketches series provides biographical sketches of a specific group of historical figures from the Gallery's collection of portraits. Each volume examines the public images and private faces, the characters and relationships that gave each group its identity and importance. Introductions to each volume give a comprehensive account of the lives featured from a critical perspective. Journals, letters, diaries, anecdotes, poems and novels are all used to create portraits in words as well as images. This issue focuses on the pre-Raphaelites.

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  Paperback
  1997

  $4.82

  Richly illustrated, Jan Marsh describes the life of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - a group of young pa inters and poets who caused a furore in staid Victorian Lond on - through a selection of their letters and writings. '