Light, Camera, Action: Light displays are an important part of New Year celebrations the world over, so we are celebrating today with Pre-Raphaelite Photography by Minna Keene. 1. 🖼️ ‘Pomegranates’, c.1910. 2. 🖼️ ‘Woman with flowers (Violet)’, circa 1910. 3. 🖼️ ‘Fenn Lancaster’.

A Merry Musical Rossetti Christmas. We hope you liked our 2025 #ArtistAdventCalendar. We are taking a break from social media till the new year. See you in 2026, when we will have more lectures, events, podcast episodes, journal articles and magazines, and more social media content, of course.

Day twenty four of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, and to celebrate all the hard work he will be doing later today,‘Old Father Christmas’, by Scottish artist, William Ewart Lockhart (1846–1900), in the collection of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social

Ann Macbeth for day twenty three of our #ArtistAdventCalendar. 🖼️ ‘Angels Garlanding the Infant Christ’, Ann Macbeth, watercolour heightened with gouache and gold paint. Ann Macbeth was a British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author and a member of the Glasgow Movement.

A design by May Morris for day twenty-two of our #ArtistAdventCalendar. 🖼️ Design for ‘Amis and Amile’ silk book pouch, May Morris, 1905, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social.

From Edward Burne-Jones to John Duncan, Annie Swynnerton, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Anna Lea Merritt and William Holman Hunt, which was your favourite advent picture last week? #ArtistAdventCalendar

Lantern Light with William Holman Hunt for day twenty-one of our #ArtistAdventCalendar and to celebrate the longest night of the year #WinterSolstice. 🖼️ ‘The Light of the World’, William Holman Hunt, 1851-52, @kebleoxford.bsky.social.

An Angelic Advent with Anna Lea Merritt for day twenty of our #ArtistAdventcalendar. Inside Heaven’s gate are two angels – one carrying a scale to weigh the soul, and the other holding a crown of roses to welcome accepted souls. 🖼️ ‘The watchers of the straight gate’, Anna Lea Merritt, 1894.

An Annunciation by Phoebe Anna Traquair for day nineteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar. Like many artists of the Arts and Crafts era Traquair worked in a variety of mediums, from embroideries, manuscript illumination, bookbinding, enamelwork, furniture decoration, and mural decoration.

Golden Gotch for day eighteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar. 🖼️ ‘Alleluia’, Thomas Cooper Gotch, exhibited 1896, Tate. His daughter, Phyllis Marian Gotch, often modelled for her father. She is here seen as the central figure, arms raised in prayer.

Christmas correspondence with Annie Swynnerton’s ‘The Letter’ @royalacademy.bsky.social, for day seventeen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar.

An early Christmas present just landed in our post box! The latest PRS Review, our magazine, full of poetry, essays, book reviews, news on upcoming events and exhibitions and so much more. This winter edition focusses on stories of work and the working class. …

Day sixteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar with John Duncan and his depiction of ‘Saint Bride’ being escorted by angelic intervention to the site of the nativity. 🖼️ ‘Saint Bride’, John Duncan, 1913, @nationalgalleries.bsky.social.

Edward Burne-Jones and a cast of his friends and fellow creatives depicted in ‘Adoration of the Magi’ for day fifteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar.

Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends. Sharing Jewish artist Simeon Solomon’s ‘Lighting the Lamps, Eve of Sabbath’ 1862, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, to celebrate this Festival of Lights.

Which was your favourite artwork we shared this week? #ArtistAdventCalendar From Simeon Solomon, to Marie Spartali Stillman, Marianne Stokes, John Everett Millais, Evelyn De Morgan, Robert Braithwaite Martineau and William Bell Scott.

Happy Advent day fourteen with William Bell Scott for our #ArtistAdventCalendar. Depicting the Nativity scene in a dilapidated barn near Penkill Castle, Scotland. Angels watch from the rafters, as shepherds arrive. 🖼️ ‘The Nativity’, William Bell Scott, 1872, @nationalgalleries.bsky.social.

For day thirteen of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, a festive scene from the genius mind and gilded hand of Evelyn De Morgan. 🖼️ ‘Glora in Excelsis’, @demorganfoundation.bsky.social , depicts the nativity scene when angels appear to the shepherds to announce Christ’s birth.

Day twelve of our #ArtistAdventCalendar with an unfinished sketch of poverty, pathos and Christmas time. ‘The poor Actress’s Christmas Dinner’, Robert Braithwaite Martineau (1826–1869), @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social.

For day 11 of our #ArtistAdventCalendar ‘The Mistletoe Gatherer’, John Everett Millais, 1894. This idealised working class young woman, with worn boots, no gloves or head covering and with a sharp sickle in her right hand, has harvested mistletoe from a snowy, bleak setting, to divide up and sell.

Announcing an exciting opportunity for American scholars! The University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum invite applications for the 2026 joint Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies. Application deadline: January 5, 2026 For more information, see: delart.org/opportunitie... ...

Marianne Stokes for day 10 of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, with ‘Angels Entertaining the Holy Child’, 1893. Stokes depicts a new mother’s sheer exhaustion, giving the Virgin Mary the same lived experience as other mothers. …

For day nine of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, Marie Spartali Stillman’s ‘The Enchanted Garden’, 1889. Inspired by Boccaccio’s Decameron, despite the distant, snowy scenes, within the walls of Ansaldo’s garden spring is conjured to woo his beloved Dianora.

How to pick a favourite? But loving the verse and image pieces and presence of Georgiana Burne-Jones this week. Beautiful advent calendar this December from the @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social

A thrill to receive the new @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social PRS Review and see my latest poem written for the Society. This was such an inspiring commission; how could I fail to be moved by Millais' stark-yet-tender painting? Shared in full, for folks who might enjoy a wintry poem.

Day 8 of our #ArtistAdventCalendar with Simeon Solomon and ‘The Annunication’. An intimate view of Gabriel staring in awe at Mary while she has her eyes closed, contemplating this unexpected gift, and her future life. …

#ArtistAdventCalendar for Christmas 2025

A Nativity scene by Elizabeth Siddal for the seventh day of our #ArtistAdventCalendar. The beautiful simplicity and strength of emotion between mother and child, was inspired by Siddal’s own style, unhampered by art training at the Royal Academy, which didn’t except women students …

Day six of our #ArtistAdventCalendar with Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Light & Love’, 1865, @V&AMuseum. A photographic interpretation of the nativity scene, the nest-like bed of straw suggests the manger in which the baby Jesus was lain.

For the fifth day of our #ArtistAdventCalendar, Edward Burne-Jones’ ‘The Summer Snow’, c.1863, @royalacademy.bsky.social. This wood engraving appeared in the May, 1863 issue of the magazine ‘Good Words’ to illustrate a poem called ‘Summer Snow’: …

Day four of our #ArtistAdventCalendar with Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. Only a glimpse of the Virgin’s face, her privacy is captured, and her bare feet show her rooted to the earth. Have you thought about gifting a loved one a membership to the Society?- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/memberships/

For day three of our Artist Advent Calendar, poetry and a picture. William Morris & the beautiful ‘Meeting in Winter’ manuscript, from ‘Book of Verse’, made for Georgiana Burne-Jones, 1870. ❄️ For more content and to join our community, become a member of the society- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/

For the second day of our Artist Advent Calendar, John William Waterhouse with ‘Saint Eulalia’, 1884, @tate.bsky.social. Waterhouse exhibited this picture in 1885 with a note, that St. Eulalia’s body was covered ‘by the miraculous fall of snow when lying in the forum after her martyrdom.’

Our Artist Advent Calendar begins today at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery with Arthur Hughes’ The Nativity, 1858. Are you a chocolate advent calendar person, a picture advent calendar person, or one of the fancy beauty/homeware/perfume advent calendar people?

Event tomorrow- Launch of Darling Blue a poetry book by Sarah James with live readings on a theme of blue/art from guest poets. Saturday, 22 November 2025 3-7pm The Gallery (upstairs) at Droitwich Library, WR9 8DQ FREE but ticketed on Eventbrite at: www.eventbrite.com/e/darling-bl...

Are you coming to our lecture this Saturday, 1pm in Birmingham, with the wonderful @suzannefagence.bsky.social? To book and for more details see the events page on our website- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org

Call for papers for my latest project - 'Gothic Pre-Raphaelitism': serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/gothic-pre... Please share with anyone who may be interested! #gothic #preraphaelite #preraphaelitism @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social

To commemorate Remembrance Sunday is this painting of peace, ‘Peace Concluded’, John Everett Millais, 1856. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Millais shows a wounded British officer reading The Times newspaper's report of the end of the Crimean War.

Happy Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night with Edward Burne-Jones and Evelyn De Morgan paintings of ‘Hero’ and her torch of light. In the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, Hero, a priestess, uses a torch from her tower to guide her lover Leander as he swims across the Hellespont strait to meet her in secret.

Thanks so much to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for giving us a preview of the new Pre-Raphaelite galleries opening tomorrow! With four galleries there’s lots to see. Which artworks are you excited to see?

The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite galleries are reopening tomorrow, after extensive building work. The gallery is also celebrating a new acquisition, this Emma Sandys artwork, which was previously on loan. Will you be visiting?

Opening tomorrow, the new Pre-Raphaelite galleries at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. After extensive renovations, these four galleries, with over sixty artworks on display, are reopening. Are you excited to visit?

November Lecture Alert: ‘The Beauty of the Earth: the Art of May and William Morris’ Given by @suzannefagence.bsky.social 13:00, Saturday 22nd November The Birmingham and Midland Institute. Follow the link to our website in our bio, and click the events page to book.

Happy Diwali! To celebrate the Hindu, Jain and Sikh festival of light; depictions of stars twinkling in the night sky. 1. 🖼️ ‘Night’, Edward Robert Hughes. 2. 🖼️ Study for “The Hours” mural, Edwin Austin Abbey, 1897. 3. 🖼️ ‘Dantis Amor’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1860, @tate.bsky.social.

Black cats for this October #ThursdayTheme. 1. 🖼️’The Wine of Circe’, Edward Burne-Jones, 1863 - 1869. 2. 🖼️’Early Days’, John Everett Millais, 1873. 3. 🖼️’The Love Potion’, Evelyn De Morgan, 1903.

Thanks so much to @preraphsrule.bsky.social for giving our Founders Day Lecture on Christina Rossetti and Caring at the Birmingham and Midland Institute yesterday. Just after our annual AGM. Become a member of the society today to hear more about our other future lectures- link in our bio.

Are you joining us in Birmingham tomorrow for our AGM and Founders Lecture? 10:30- 13:30, Saturday 11 October at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. ‘The Humble Work’ : Connecting Care and Creativity in Christina Rossetti’s Writing by Dinah Roe www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

#SongbirdSaturday, to celebrate a certain Swift releasing new music. 1. 🖼️ ‘Love’s Messenger’, Marie Spartali Stillman, 1885, Delaware Art Museum. 2. 🖼️ ‘Veronica Veronese’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1872, Del Art Museum. 3. 🖼️ ‘The Blessed Damozel’, Edward Burne-Jones, c.1856, Harvard Art Museums.

Many thanks to @serena-t.bsky.social for organizing this inspiring day. Meeting so many wonderful new scholars & hearing about their cutting-edge work was an absolute tonic for the weary academic soul. I am delighted to report that our discipline is in very good hands!

Embracing Autumn, open armed and excited, for today’s #TuesdayThought. 1. 🖼️ ‘Autumn Leaves’, John Everett Millais, 1856. 2. 🖼️ ‘Autumn’, William Stott, c.1898. 3. 🖼️ Detail from ‘An English Autumn Afternoon’, Ford Madox Brown, 1854.