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PRE-RAPHAELITE (founded 1848)
Portrait of the young Dante Gabriel Rossetti, seated in an arm-chair (1843 England)
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| Item Stock Code |
02357 |
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| Item Medium Description |
Pencil on paper |
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| Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details |
Inscribed by William Michael Rossetti on the Frame: See Inscription on Frame – Peppino was the son of the Maenza who housed Dante G. Rossetti in Boulogne. This Portrait was always regarded in The Family as little better than a caricature, yet it is not totally unlike, on a label attached to the backboard |
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| European Dimensions |
19.00 cm wide 22.20 cm high |
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| UK/USA Converted Dimensions |
7.48 inches wide 8.74 inches high |
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| Item Provenance & History |
Given by the artist in December 1844 to:
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| Item Literature |
William Michael Rossetti, The Portraits of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - I, Magazine of Art, 1889, page 23
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| Item Description / Dealer Expertise |
The drawing shows Rossetti at the age of fifteen. It was made in November 1843 and 'begged' by the sitter for his mother when he returned to Boulogne the following winter. William Michael Rossetti described it at length in an article on portraits of his brother published in the Magazine of Art in 1889 and again in his biography of the artist that followed in 1895. It is drawn, he wrote, in a dark "blocky" manner ... Rossetti here looks gaunt and uncouth, a hobbledehoy with no girth of chest or shoulder, with blubber lips and almost a quadroon type face; not stupid, but so wanting in finesse as to approach the stolid ... The family always considered it a caricature. In 2002 the editors of Rossetti's correspondence wrote that the drawing had never been reproduced and seemed to have disappeared.
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| PRE-RAPHAELITE |
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848 by a group of English painters: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, as well as poets and critics: William Michael Rossetti, an art critic and Dante's younger brother; the art critic Frederic George Stephens; the painter James Collinson; and the sculptor and poet Thomas Woolner. Millais left the group in 1859, but as the second generation Pre-Raphaelites arose, other English artists joined it, including the painter Edward Coley Burne-Jones; the poet and artist William Morris was never a Pre-Raphaelite in the true conception of the term.
The group reacted against the Victorian materialism and the conventions of the Royal Academy in London and was inspired by medieval and early Renaissance painters up to and including the Italian painter Raphael. They found their inspiration at first from the bible, history and poems, but soon the subjects from modern life were also used rooted in realism and truth to nature. Pre-Raphaelite art became distinctive for its blend of archaic, romantic, and moralistic qualities. Inspired by the teachings of John Ruskin and the landscapes of Madox Brown and Holman Hunt, young men, mainly from the north of England, were inspired to create a loosely knit movement of Pre-Raphaelite landscape painters. In Liverpool, the Liverpool School of Painters was based around the Liverpool Academy of Arts. (1) The Liverpool artists who exhibited there alongside the London Pre-Raphaelites were William Davis, Daniel Alexander Williamson, William JJC Bond, William Huggins, John Edward Newton, James Campbell, William Lindsay Windus, Alfred William Hunt and John Wright Oakes. J W Inchbold and John Atkinson Grimshaw were both born in Leeds. When John Ruskin published volume 4 of Modern Painters in 1856, where he wrote passionately on alpine scenery and geological landscape forms, many young artists from all over Britain were inspired. 1. H C Marillier, The Liverpool School of Painters: An Account of the Liverpool Academy, from 1810 to 1867, with Memoirs of the Principal Artists, John Murray 1904 |
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| MAENZA |
Peppino Maenza was the only son of Giuseppe Maenza, a teacher of Italian and painting who lived in Boulogne. For health reasons Rossetti visited the family in the autumn of 1843 and the winter of 1844, forming a close friendship with Peppino, who was a few years his senior. It was Peppino who encouraged his interest in French illustrators like Garvarni and Tony Johannot, who so profoundly influenced his early style. After showing much early promise, Peppino gave up as an artist, emigrated to Australia and disappeared. Rossetti tried to raise money for his benefit in 1860.
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