The Pre-Raphaelite Lens

Published on Monday 8 November 2010

If you are in Washington, we can highly recommend this exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, which has just opened. It continues a relatively new trend in which many photographs are exhibited alongside rather fewer paintings, rather than the other way around. There is an excellent selection of photographs by British practitioners from 1848 to 1875 which reveal varying versions of Pre-Raphaelite vision in photography that had a counterpart in the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers. The exhibits include 4 Ruskin daguerreotypes from our collection, the first ones seen in the United States.

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