Author name: Caroline Haller, M.A.

The Awakening Conscience is a didactic genre scene by Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt. Completed in 1853, the oil on canvas measures 76 x 56 cm. It was initially commissioned by Thomas Fairbairn. Fairbairn, the owner of an engineering company in Manchester, paid 350 guineas for the work, but was unsatisfied with the face of the

Sir John Everett Millais’s Christ in the House of His Parents, also referred to as The Carpenter’s Shop, was painted between 1849 and 1850. The oil on canvas measures 86.4 cm × 139.7 cm and is housed in the Tate Britain in London, England. The museum purchased the work in 1921. It is framed in an ornamental gold

The painting featured here is titled Ophelia and might be the singularly most recognizable Pre-Raphaelite Painting. This oil on canvas was painted by the British artist Sir John Everett Millais between 1851 and 1852. The canvas measures 30 inches tall by 44 inches in width. What is Depicted in the Artwork? Like many of his

The Lady of Shalott is an oil on canvas painting completed by artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) in 1888. The canvas measures 72 x 91 inches and depicts a scene from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s (1809-1892) poem of the same name. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1888. Later, the painting was