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Towards the end of his career, Morris began to focus increasingly on his writing, publishing a number of prose narratives, including his most celebrated: News from Nowhere (1890). Infused with his socialist ideas and romantic utopianism, this book offers Morris's vision of a simple world in which art or 'work-pleasure' is demanded of and enjoyed by all.
By his death in 1753 he had collected more than 71,000 items. Sloane bequeathed his collection to the nation in his will and it became the founding collection of the British Museum. Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753) was born in Killyleagh, Ulster, in the North of Ireland, in relatively modest circumstances as the third son of migrants from Ayrshire ...
- Childhood
- Woodford Hall
- Education
- Water House
- Oxford
- Bloomsbury
- Oxford Frescoes
- Marriage
- Red House
- The Firm
Morris’s paternal grandparents were Welsh, but his parents, William and Emma Morris, chose Walthamstow in northeast London for their family home (then in Essex). They had nine children of whom William was the third child and the eldest son to live to maturity. He was born on 24 March 1834 at Elm House in Walthamstow. It was demolished in 1898 but t...
In 1840, when William Morris was six years old, the family moved from Walthamstow to Woodford Hall. It was the success of his father’s investment in a copper mine in Devon that allowed the move to the impressive Georgian mansion. It was surrounded by 50 acres of land adjacent to Epping Forest. William Morris had an idyllic childhood at Woodford Hal...
While living at Woodford Hall, from the age of nine, Morris attended a small local school: Misses Arundale’s Academy for Young Gentlemen. After the family moved back to Walthamstow, Morris started at Marlborough College, in Wiltshire, from February 1848. This was anew public school for the sons of the emergent Victorian middle class. Morris receive...
After his father died, the familyresettled in Walthamstow in a smaller (but still substantial) Georgian villa called Water House. This was William Morris’s home from 1848 to 1856. The building is now the William Morris Galleryand what was his home’s garden has been a large public park called Lloyd Park since 1900. The building’s blue plaque for Wil...
In June 1852 he took Oxford matriculation and he entered Exeter College in January 1853. His experiences in the halcyon medieval city were all to shape his artistic, professional and social life. At Oxford he developed his interest in art and architecture and met his life-long friend, Edward Burne-Jones. Burne-Jones introduced Morris to his school ...
In 1848, seven artists and critics formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. On Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s behalf, Thomas Woolner, the only sculptor of the Pre-Raphaelite Brothers, enquired about lodgings on the first floor of 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury. The three rooms were available at 20 shillings per week (roughly £80 today). There was a stipula...
In 1857, Rossetti was commissioned to supervise decorative work in the debating hall of Benjamin Woodward’s new building, which was used by the Oxford Union Society. He enlisted his friends for this task and the group (which included the artist Arthur Hughes, amongst others) painted frescoes illustrating scenes from Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. Regrett...
It was Rossetti who had first noticed Jane Burden, seated near them in a local theatre, and persuaded her to model for the frescoes. At 17 years old, she typified the Pre-Raphaelite ideals of female beauty, with her dark wavy hair, soulful eyes and her paleness. Originally she modeled for Rossetti. Morris then used her as his model for La Belle Ise...
In 1859, Morris commissioned his friend and colleague from Street’s offices, Philip Webb, to create the couple’s first home, Red House. They moved in in 1860. It was the only house William Morris owned as all the other places he lived were rented. Morris had received an annuity of £900 a year upon his father’s death and could therefore afford to cr...
William Morris’s decorating company – originally Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. – was founded in spring 1861. Unofficially, it was referred to as the Firm. Peter Paul Marshall, a surveyor and sanitary engineer, and Charles Faulkner, who had given up a mathematics fellowship to do the book-keeping, provided the firm’s managerial resources. Other n...
The Trustees have never been asked for a loan of the Parthenon sculptures by Greece, only for the permanent removal of all of the sculptures in its care to Athens. The Trustees will consider (subject to the usual considerations of condition and fitness to travel) any request for any part of the collection to be borrowed and then returned.
May 20, 2015 · Returning home to Queens, his top coat grazed with dust, Cornell filed away his notes and trouvailles in his cramped basement studio. Photographs taken by the artist Harry Roseman in the late 1960s offer a moving glimpse of the room, with its cardboard storage boxes heaped to the ceiling and labelled to reveal the artist’s non-deluxe raw materials: "tinfoil" and "plastic shells" and the like.
Living intermittently in Paris and Spain until 1904, his work during these years suggests feelings of desolation and darkness inspired in part by the suicide of his friend Casagemas. Picasso’s paintings from late 1901 to about the middle of 1904, referred to as his Blue Period, depict themes of poverty, loneliness, and despair.
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Jan 12, 2016 · Howson, the UK’s official war artist at the time, created about 200 paintings and drawings during a trip to war-torn Bosnia that left him shell-shocked. Bowie purchased the painting, which was ...
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