Cultural Influences

Google doodle recently showcased Fanny Eaton, the Jamaican born model who posed for many of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, including Simeon and Rebecca Solomon, Joanna Wells, Rossetti and Millais.

https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-fanny-eaton

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/fanny-eaton-jamaican-pre-raphaelite-muse

Natsume Soseki and the Pre-Raphaelites

elee Cultural Influences December 31, 2017August 5, 2021 0 Comment

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The Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki visited London in 1900 and found inspiration for his writings in Pre-Raphaelite paintings – especially Millais’s Ophelia and Hunt’s Lady of Shalott and The Hireling Shepherd.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/11/04/books/natsume-sosekis-pre-raphaelite-dreams/#.Wkhld4WBmDc

Poet Raza Hussain inspired by Hunt’s portrait of Rossetti

elee Cultural Influences September 23, 2017January 6, 2018 0 Comment

Art UK challenged four poets to write and perform original works based on paintings that have inspired them from the UK’s art collection.

Raza Hussain performs his poem ‘Raphaelites of Birmz’, inspired by the painting ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)’ by William Holman Hunt. Filmed at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Read more about the painting and the poet: http://bit.ly/2rlyW03.