Art and Museums

There are highly stylized necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, brooches and watches, in addition to finely crafted accessories like clutches, cigarette cases and tobacco lighters. Objets d’art, such as a 1908 butler’s bell push comprised of a model yacht riding a wave fashioned from jasper, drew audible gasps. more »

If the "zone of intimacy" Lawrence fostered in his studio apparently caused anxiety among critics and potential clients alike, "it also piqued interest in his portraits of women and gave them a sense of spontaneity, liveliness and sensuality that his competitors could not match," one of the curators writes. more »

The creative energy was absolutely electric. The passion of what these people had endured poured out in multi-media far beyond words. Here they could express themselves in ways they had never before discovered possible. I was lifted out of years of stagnation just by being with them and began to find the talent I had denied more »

The Courtauld's exhibition features works by most of the major artists of the Victorian age, from the redoubtable Royal Academicians of the early years of Victoria’s reign, such as J.M.W. Turner, William Etty and Edwin Landseer, to Pre-Raphaelites such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and works of the 1890s by Whistler and Aubrey Beardsley.  more »