All the summer hats by Julia Margaret Cameron for #thursdayvibes. The first entitled ‘For I’m to be the Queen of May Mother’, the second ‘Summer Days’ and the third ‘Ophelia Study No 2’.

New Talk: FORESTS OF A FUTURE PAST IN WILLIAM MORRIS’S ‘NEWS FROM NOWHERE’ Dr. Dion Dobrzynski 11am, Saturday 13th June ONLINE VIA ZOOM. This talk explores Morris’ vision of a forested London as a challenge to industrial capitalism. Tickets: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

Escaping the heat by imagining we are mermaids #hotsummer. ‘I would be a mermaid fair; I would sing to myself the whole of the day;’ Extract from ‘The Mermaid’, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1830. …

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New Talk Alert! ‘Artists in Wonderland: Pre-Raphaelite Adventures in Oxford’ 11.30am, Sat 30 May This is an in person talk at Birmingham & Midland Institute Book here- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail... A fascinating lecture exploring the Pre-Raphaelites association with Oxford.

The heady scent of Bluebells is wafting across the UK this week. To celebrate are Pre-Raphaelite depictions of these purple perfumed presents. 🖼️ ‘Bluebells’, Lawrence Alma Tadema. 🖼️ ‘The Woodmans Child’, Arthur Hughes, 1860, Tate. 🖼️ ‘The Fairy Wood’, Henry Meynell Rheam, 1903.

A Rossetti painting prop for #WorldArtDay. In our previous post we shared Rossetti’s painting ‘Washing Hands’, one of a number of artworks from the 1850s and later that features this cistern, now on display at Wightwick Manor in their current exhibition ‘The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses’. …

Happy #WorldArtDay with the story of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti pouring prop …. A story to be continued later today … 🖼️ ‘Washing Hands’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1865.

Happy Easter Sunday with some hopping hares and rambunctious rabbits to celebrate. 🖼️ ‘Rabbit amid Ferns and Flowering Plants’, William J Webbe, 1855, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 🖼️ ‘The White Rabbit’, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, c.1871. 🖼️ ‘The Hare’, Phillip Webb, 1886, Wightwick Manor.

The Lamb of God, three Pre-Raphaelite depictions of flocks of sheep for this #GoodFriday. 🖼️ ‘The Pretty Baa-Lambs’, Ford Madox Brown, c.1851, BMAG. 🖼️ ‘Our English Coasts’, William Holman Hunt, 1852, Tate. 🖼️ ‘The Hireling Shepherd’, William Holman Hunt, 1851-2, Manchester Art Gallery.

A reminder that our chair is giving a lecture later today - which you can see in person or watch online. ‘Why Does Pre-Raphaelitism Matter Now?’ Professor Serena Trowbridge’s Inaugural Lecture. 18:00 – 20:00, 20 March Birmingham & Midland Institute www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

A reminder for today- ‘Remarkable Woman: Pragmatic Feminism in May Morris’s Plays.’ 19:30 – 21:30, Wed 18 March Zoom Lecture Lecture by Professor Serena Trowbridge in collaboration with @williammorrissocuk.bsky.social www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a trio of green goddesses created by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.

‘The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses’ exhibition at Wightwick Manor is open. A story of the extraordinary talent of one family, four siblings: Gabriel, Christina, William and Maria, and two spouses: Elizabeth Siddal and Lucy Madox Brown. It extends to eight rooms and features newly acquired works.

LIVE NOW a new episode of our Pre-Raphaelite podcast for #MorrisMonth! To celebrate we are excited to welcome Gabriella Esser and Vanessa Manson from The William Morris Society to share the life and legacies of Morris. They tell us about a busy March filled with activities many of which are online.

Just LOOK at this gorgeous fore-edge painting from Gaetano Polidori's 1919 'Traduzione del lament di Tasso di Lord Byron'. @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social 😍

Thanks to everyone that came to our in person February lecture at Birmingham & Midland Institute, delivered by Helen Bratt-Wyton and Hannah Squire, co-curators of ‘The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses’ exhibition opening at Wightwick Manor & Gardens, Saturday 7th March 2026.

Highly recommend! Am really looking forward to this exhibition. 😍

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Upcoming Talk! 11.30am, Saturday 7th February at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. An in person talk by curators Helen Bratt-Wyton and Hannah Squire to discuss their upcoming exhibition ‘The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses’ at Wightwick Manor. www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

Female rage today courtesy of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s depictions of Joan of Arc. #ThursdayThoughts

Upcoming Talk! 11.30am, Saturday 7th February at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. An in person talk by curators Helen Bratt-Wyton and Hannah Squire to discuss their upcoming exhibition ‘The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses’ at Wightwick Manor. www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

Sharing images of the legendary Ancient Greek poet and LGBTQ+ hero, Sappho, to remind everyone our poetry competition ends soon, 1 February 2026. If you’d like the chance to have your work published in the Pre-Raphaelite Society Magazine click here- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/competitions/

When you wish they’d just add a bit of seasoning to their food- basil anyone? #TastyThursday (The subject is actually taken from a poem called ‘Isabella’ by John Keats and is about lost love and grief.)

Flocking to the Fireplace this #FreezingFriday in the UK. 🖼️ ‘At Home: A Portrait’, Walter Crane, 1872, Leeds Art Gallery. 🖼️ ‘Sister Helen’, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, Wightwick Manor. 🖼️ ‘Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl’, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1864, Tate.

Reflections today. We want to reflect that the Pre-Raphaelite Society is an independent charity, it’s volunteer-run, and we don’t have the capacity to answer general PRB questions, or check the sheer volume of direct messages we receive on our social media. Please contact us via our website.

Verdant visions with Rossetti’s ‘The Salutation of Beatrice’ (1869)’, ‘My Lady Greensleeves’ (1863) and ‘Il Ramoscello’ (The Twig) (1865) for this week’s #WednesdayWonder. For more content and to join our community, become a member of the society by clicking the link in our bio.

Light, Camera, Action: Light displays are an important part of New Year celebrations the world over, so we are celebrating today with Pre-Raphaelite Photography by Minna Keene. 1. 🖼️ ‘Pomegranates’, c.1910. 2. 🖼️ ‘Woman with flowers (Violet)’, circa 1910. 3. 🖼️ ‘Fenn Lancaster’.

A Merry Musical Rossetti Christmas. We hope you liked our 2025 #ArtistAdventCalendar. We are taking a break from social media till the new year. See you in 2026, when we will have more lectures, events, podcast episodes, journal articles and magazines, and more social media content, of course.

Day twenty four of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, and to celebrate all the hard work he will be doing later today,‘Old Father Christmas’, by Scottish artist, William Ewart Lockhart (1846–1900), in the collection of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social

Ann Macbeth for day twenty three of our #ArtistAdventCalendar. 🖼️ ‘Angels Garlanding the Infant Christ’, Ann Macbeth, watercolour heightened with gouache and gold paint. Ann Macbeth was a British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author and a member of the Glasgow Movement.

A design by May Morris for day twenty-two of our #ArtistAdventCalendar. 🖼️ Design for ‘Amis and Amile’ silk book pouch, May Morris, 1905, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social.