PRS Review - Archive Index

Below is an archive index of the PRS Review. 
Members of the PRS receive three copies of the PRS Review yearly,
numbering Spring, Summer and Autumn issues. 

​Most Recent Editions Below: 2017- 2020: Vols XXV - XXVIIl

​Older Editions
​ 2014​ - 2016: Vols XXII - XXIV
2011 - 2013: Vols XIX - XXI
2008 - 2010: Vols XVI - XVIII
2002 - 2007: Vols X- XV 
1993 - 2001: Vols I - IX

Volume XXVIII, Number 3, Autumn 2020
Special Edition : Simeon Solomon

CONTENTS
Guest editors - Dr Carolyn Conroy & Dr Roberto C. Ferrari
Essays
Colin Cruise - Truth, Nature and Intensity: Solomon and Schnorr Illustrating the Bible
Jasmine Allen - Simeon Solomon and Stained Glass
Roberto C. Ferrari - Pre-Raphaelite Portraiture: Simeon Solomon’s Early Portrait Drawings 
Scott Thomas Buckle - Simeon Solomon and Punch’s ‘Private View of the Royal Academy,’ 1865 
Dominic Janes - Religion, Cross-Dressing and Sexual Desire in the Art of Simeon Solomon
Gayle M. Seymour - Simeon Solomon in Venice: Carnival and Canova
Carolyn Conroy - Saints and Demons: Unexplored Drawings by Simeon Solomon in the Ashmolean Museum Collection
Aileen Naylor - The Actor and the Artist: Cecil Crofton’s Gift of a Drawing by Simeon Solomon 
Ray Jackson - Exhibition Review: Simeon Solomon’s The Mystery of Faith 
Peter Hamburger with Carolyn Conroy - The Salaman Family and Simeon Solomon
Frank Vigon - The Restoration of Simeon Solomon’s Grave 

Volume XXVIIl, Number 2, Summer 2020

CONTENTS
Katja Robinson Editorial 
Essays 
Ronald Lessens and Dennis T. Lanigan Luca Signorelli’s The School of Pan and the copy by Henry Wallis
Dennis T. Lanigan J. W. Waterhouse’s Margaret, Scottish Martyr – A Rediscovery 
Simon Cooke Fred Mason: A Neglected Pre-Raphaelite of the Birmingham School
Katherine Hinzman ‘The Spaces Between: Edward Burne-Jones and the Waters of Heaven’ 
Robert Finnigan Minors and Majors I: Arthur O’Shaughnessy and the Browns 
Gallery Focus Peter Wise Pre-Raphaelite Places II: The Isle of Wight
Reviews 
Mark Jones Exhibition & Catalogue Review: Aubrey Beardsley (Tate Britain)  
John Holmes Exhibition Review: The Enchanted Interior (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle followed by Guildhall Art Gallery, London) 
Simon Poë Exhibition Review: William and Evelyn de Morgan: ‘Two of the Rarest Spirits of the Age’ (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle) 
Amelia Yeates and Katja Robinson Book Review: Henry Wallis (1830-1916): from Pre-Raphaelite Painter to Collector/Connoisseur
Lisa Dallape Matson Book Review: The Girl in the Picture 
Robert Finnigan Book Review: Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture 
Katja Robinson Book Review: The Pre-Raphaelites 
Sarah Hardy Book Review: The Boyce Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Joanna Boyce, Henry Wells and George Price Boyce, Volumes 1-2 
Amelia Yeates Book Review: Joanna, George and Henry: A Pre-Raphaelite Tale of Art, Love and Friendship
Katja Robinson Magazine Review: Enchanted Living- PRB special issue
Meeting Reports
Dr Laura MacCulloch : Works on Paper by Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893),  22nd February 2020

Volume XXVIIl, Number 1, Spring 2020

Contents
Katja Robinson: Editorial
John Pickard Essay Prize Winners
Marte Stinis- “Desire is What Counts”: D.G. Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel in a Circle of Artistic Connections
Alan Castree- A Success Despite Herself: Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927)
Karl Merrick- The Gothic Potential in Algernon Charles Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads (186
Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize Winners 2019
Ellora Sutton: First Prize: The Branding of Elgiva  
Eithne Cullen: Second Prize: Dear Miss Morris   
Wendy Holborow:  Third Prize: The Order of Release 1746
Karl Merrick: Vice President’s Commendation: The Dance of Salome
Andria Cooke: Poet-In-Residence’s Commendation: Reflections
PRS Painting competition
1. Eduardo M.Gea- Ultima Manet Spes (Hope Remains Last) 
2. Eszter Király- Dorothy 
3. Georgina Smigen-Rothkopf- Solace
 Gallery Focus
Margaret English: Stained Glass at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver 
Exhibition Reviews
Nic Peeters- exhibition and catalogue review: Pre-Raphaelite Sisters (NPG London) 
Simon Poe- exhibition review: Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy 
Ester Diaz Morillo- exhibition review: The Pre-Raphaelites (Palazzo Reale, Milan) 
Sarah Hardy- exhibition review: Rossetti Pre The Pre-Raphaelites (Wightwick Manor) 
Mark Jones- exhibition and catalogue review: William Blake (Tate Britain) 
Book Reviews
Simon Poe- Ruskin, Turner and the Storm Cloud
Stephen Maddison- Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy
Mark Jones-Unto This Last: 200 years of John Ruskin
Serena Trowbridge- William Morris and John Ruskin: A New Road on Which the World Should Travel 
Amelia Yeates- The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
Poem Review
Mary Faraci on Sarah Doyle’s poem The Lady of Shalott 
Meeting Reports
Dr Jasmine Allen: Pre-Raphaelite and Arts & Crafts Stained Glass at the Stained Glass Museum, Ely, Saturday 25th January 2020 

Volume XXVII, Number 3, Autumn 2019 

CONTENTS
Katja Robinson: Editorial
Gallery Focus
Stephen Maddison: Ashmolean 
Essays
Nic Peeters and Judy Oberhausen: The Portraiture of Evelyn de Morgan 
Dott.ssa Julia Alexandra Mee: Pre-Raphaelite Influences and Techniques in the Marchmont Mural Cycle: ‘A Variant of Spirit Fresco’ 
Zaynub Zaman: The Passion: the influence of the High Church on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Aestheticism 
Marina Elphick: Marina’s Pre-Raphaelite Muses 
Poems
Kevin Cahill: Proserpine and How They Met Themselves 
Sarah Doyle: On the Thames That Is The Thames                  
Exhibition/Exhibition Catalogue Reviews
Stephen Maddison: Earthly Paradise: William Morris and the Thames
Jorge Contreras- American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists (NGA)
Katherine Hinzman: Van Gogh & Britain (Tate) 
Katherine Hinzman: Ruskin: Art & Wonder (Sheffield Museums) 
Sarah Hardy: William Morris : Art & Nature (Standen House and Gardens)
Serena Trowbridge: Look Beneath the Lustre 
Book Reviews
Mark Jones: Victorian Radicals 
Marte Sinis: Democratising Beauty by Lucy Hartley 
Peter Wise: Burne-Jones: The Perseus Series 
Simon Poe: Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud 
Elaine Williams: Secret Son of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Christabel Powell 
Katja Robinson: Meet the Pre-Raphaelites: Tate Kid’s Activity Book 
Meeting Reports
Helen Challinor: Adrian Barlow on Kempe and the PRB, 13th July 
Hazel Riggall: Michael Jones on Christiana Herringham, Sept 21st 
Katja Robinson: AGM Guest Lecture: Rupert Maas on Charles Allston Collins, 19th Oct 

Volume XXVII, Number 2, Summer 2019 

CONTENTS
Katja Robinson: Editorial
Dennis Lanigan: Renaissance influences on Edward Burne-Jones’s print When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman
Gerald Roberts: Christina Rossetti’s World
Éva Péteri: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Theodor von Holst: The Death of Lady Macbeth
Gallery Focus
Katja Robinson: Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland
Poems
Sarah Doyle: Summer Snow
Louise Peterkin: Salome, Herod, Mariamne: after Mariamne Leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod by J.W.Waterhouse 
Reviews
Fiona Mann: Symposium Review: Evelyn de Morgan: Radical Artist
Sally-Anne Huxtable: Exhibition & Catalogue Review: Edward Burne-Jones
Aileen Naylor: Catalogue Review: Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites & Their Sources of Inspiration
Sarah Hardy: Exhibition Review: John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing
Katherine Hinzman: Exhibition Review: Christina Rossetti: Vision and Verse
Marte Stinis: Exhibition Review: Moonscapes
Mark Jones: Book Review: The Pre-Raphaelites and Science
Robert Finnigan: Book Review: Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith
Mark Jones: Book Review: Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art
Lisa Dallape Matson: Book Review: To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters 
Amelia Yeates: Book Review: Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang: Fifty Makers, Shakers and Heartbreakers from the Victorian Era
Stephen Maddison: Book Review: The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism
Meeting Reports
Notes & Queries
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Erratum

Volume XXVII, Number 1, Spring 2019 

CONTENTS
Katja Robinson: Editorial
John Pickard Essay Prize 2018 Winners
First Prize: ‘‘Der Tod als Freund’: Alfred Rethel, George Du Maurier and the Pre-Raphaelites’ by Antony Clayton.
Second Prize: ‘Representations of Victorian Womanhood in Waterhouse’s Lamia and La Belle Dame sans Merci‘ by Ester Díaz Morillo.
Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize 2018 Winners
First Prize: ‘The Rose of May’ by Nicola Warwick.
Second Prize: ‘The Web’ by Andria Cooke.
Third Prize: ‘The Improbable Pre-Raphaelite’ by Wendy Holborow.
Gallery Focus
McManus Galleries, Dundee, Scotland by Katja Robinson.
Reviews
Exhibition Review: ‘Beyond Ophelia’ by Serena Trowbridge.
Exhibition Review: ‘The Enchanted Garden’ by Helen Robinson.
Exhibition & Catalogue Review: ‘Lowry & the Pre-Raphaelites’ by Mark Jones.
Book Review: ‘William Morris and his Palace of Art’ by Nic Peeters.
Book Review: ‘My Lady’s Soul’ Simon Cooke.
Book Review: Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings’ by Katherine Hinzman.
Book Review: ‘The Dante Chamber’ by Lisa Dallape Matson.
Book Review: ‘Whistler’s Mother’ by Stephen Maddison.
Meeting Reports
Notes & Queries
Erratum

Volume XXVI, Number 3, Autumn 2018 
[Special 30th Anniversary Issue - William Holman Hunt]

CONTENTS
Sally-Anne Huxtable: Editorial
Sally-Anne Huxtable: ‘An Effulgence of Light’: The Enduring Vision of William Holman Hunt.
Ayla Lepine: A Longing for Salvation and a Quest for Truth: William Holman Hunt’s Theological Pre-Raphaelitism.
Robert Wilkes: ‘My quondam friend of nearly half our lives’: Hunt’s relationship with F. G. Stephens.
Emily M. Holmes: Painting Without Preconception? Re-exploring William Holman Hunt’s Approach to Naturalistic Colouring of the 1840s.
Lynn Roberts: Holman Hunt’s Frames.
Judith Bronkhurst: The Afterglow: Holman Hunt’s Pictorial Legacy.
Sarah Doyle, Poem: ‘Cursed’
Meeting Reports
Notes and Queries

Volume XXVI, Number 2, Summer 2018 

CONTENTS
Sally-Anne Huxtable: Editorial
Obituary: The Very Reverend Peter Austin Berry
Mary Faraci: Burne-Jones Blue: The Stunning Pre-Raphaelite Hour in The Lord of the Rings.
Sally-Anne Huxtable: Serious Humour in George Du Maurier’s World of Aesthetes, 1874-1884.
Jennifer Reeve-Williams & Mark Williams : The Face Inside the Circle: Optical Illusion or Subtle Magic in Waterhouse’s Depiction of Sorcery.
“Book Review: Frederick Walker and the Idyllists by Donato Esposito” by Simon Poë.
“Book Review: Critics Coteries and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity by Wendy Graham” by Robert Finnigan.
“Book Review: Suffragist Artists in Partnership: Gender, Word and Image by Lucy Ella Rose” by Nic Peeters.
“Exhibition Review: ‘A Pre-Raphaelite Collection Unveiled: The Cecil French Bequest’, Watts Gallery” by Katherine Hinzman.
Meeting Reports
Notes and Queries

Volume XXVI, Number 1, Spring 2018 

CONTENTS
Sally-Anne Huxtable – Editorial
John Pickard Essay Prize 2017 Winners –
First Prize: ‘It is clear I am a heretic’: Edward Burne-Jones, Theology, and Artistic ‘Heresy’ by Katherine Hinzman.
Second Prize: Pomegranates in Autumn: Ruminations on Rossetti’s Final Proserpine by Melissa L. Gustin.
Third Prize: The drawings behind Pre-Raphaelite love and death by David Billingsley.
Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize 2017 Winners –
First Prize: ‘Bird of God’ by Susan Castillo.
Second Prize: ‘Bells and Marigolds’ by Amanda Oosthuizen.
Third Prize: ‘Two Faces of a Daughter’ by Frances Sackett.
Vice President’s Commendation: ‘The poet on a pony’ by Eithne Cullen.
Poet in Residence’s Commendation: ‘The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry’ by Wendy Holborow.
Sarah Doyle, poem: Threads.
“Exhibition & Book Review: May Morris by Jenny Lister, Jan Marsh, Anna Mason, Rowan Bain, Hanne Faurby” by Nic Peeters.
“Exhibition and Catalogue Review: Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites by Alison Smith with Caroline Burgler, Susan Foister and Anna Koopstra” by Mark Jones.
“Exhibition and Book Review: Mystical Symbolism: the Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris 1892-1897 by Vivien Greene with essays by Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond and Kenneth E Silver” by Simon Poë.
“Exhibition Catalogue Review: Frederic William Burton: For the Love of Art by Marie Bourke (ed.)” by Amelia Yeates.
“Book Review: John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1835: The Written Record and Drawings Keith Hanley and Caroline S. Hull (eds)” by Lisa Dallape Matson.
Notes and Queries.

Volume XXV, Number 3, Autumn 2017

CONTENTS
Sally-Anne Huxtable – Editorial.
“The Pre-Raphaelite O’Shaughnessy: A Portrait in Letters” by Roibeard Fionnagain.
“Pre-Raphaelite Places: No.1, Brig o’Turk” by Peter Wise.
Sarah Doyle, poem: Specchio di Mistero.
“Book Review: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London, John Lockwood Kipling” by Madeleine Pearce.
“Book Review: Damozels and Deities, Alistair Carew Cox” by Tim McGee.
“Catalogue Review: Albert Moore: Of Beauty and Aesthetics, York Art Gallery” by Simon Poë.
“Book Review: James Collinson (aka “The Dormouse”), Helen D. Newman” by Amelia Yeates.
“Book Review: The Art of G.F. Watts, Nicolas Tromans” by Kirsty Stonell Walker.
“Book Review: Modern Painters, Old Masters, Elizabeth Prettejohn” by Mark Jones.
“Book Review: Work’s Forward Motion, Wendy Holborow” by Stephen G. Maddison.
“Book Review: The Late Pre-Raphaelites and Where to Find Them, David Elliott and Patricia O’Connor” by Nic Peeters.
Meeting Reports.
Notes and Queries.

Volume XXV, Number 2, Summer 2017

CONTENTS
Sally-Anne Huxtable – Editorial.
“The Adoration of Kings: Mary & the Beggar Maid” by Katherine Hinzman.
“‘A Literal Transcript’? Ways of Reading Ford Madox Brown’s An English Autumn Afternoon” by Simon Cooke.
Sarah Doyle, Poem: “How They Met Themselves”.
“Catalogue Review Essay – Botticelli Reimagined, by Mark Evans & Stefan Weppelmann” by Mark Jones.
“Exhibition & Book Review –Flaming June: the Making of an Icon, ed. by Catherine Blake” by Simon Poë.
“Book Review: Arthur O’Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum by Lisa Dallape Matson“ by Jordan Kistler.
“Book Review: Frank Dicksee 1853 – 1928: His Art and Life by Stephen G. Maddison” by Simon Toll.
“Book Review: The Diary of Mary Watts: 1887 – 1904, ed. Desna Greenhow” by Mark Jones.
“Book Review: Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic Painting from National Museums Liverpool, by Christopher Newall”, by Kirsty Stonell Walker.
“Book Review: Victorians Undone: Tales of Flesh in the Age of Decorum, by Kathryn Hughes” by Simon Cooke.
“Book Review: The Book & Periodical Illustrations of Arthur Hughes, by Maroussia Oakley” by Stephen G. Maddison.
“Book Review: Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth Century Britain, by Catherine Roach” by Mark Jones.
Meeting Reports.

Volume XXV, Number 1, Spring 2017

CONTENTS
John Pickard Essay Prize Winner: “Four Flowers and a Funeral” by Julie Wyman.
John Pickard Essay Prize Winner Runner Up: “Travel and Empire in Julia Margaret Cameron’s Botanical Photograms” by Molly K. Eckel.
“Paul Woodroffe: a Third Generation Pre-Raphaelite” by Simon Cooke.
Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize Winners:
First Prize: “The Noble Working Men: The Navvies” by Wendy Holborow.
Second Prize: “Frederick Sandys drawing clouds” by John Gallas.
Editor’s Commendation: “et Spiritus” by Maria Isakova Bennett.
Poet in Residence’s Commendation: “John Brett explains to his wife a day out with no drawing” by John Gallas.
Sarah Doyle, Poem: “Remains (After Edward Burne-Jones’ painting, Love among the Ruins, 1894)”.
Sarah Doyle, Poem: “A Bridesmaid’s Prayer”.
“Exhibition & Book Review Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age by Carol Jacobi and Hope Kingsley” by Nic Peeters.
“Book Review The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street by Devon Cox” by Robert Finnigan.
“Book Review Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics behind De Morgan’s Ceramic Designs by Sarah Hardy” by Simon Cooke.
“Book Review: Julia Margaret Cameron by Herself, Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry” by Jorge L. Contreras.
“Book Review ‘A New and Noble School’: Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites
Ruskin’s Complete Writings on the Pre-Raphaelites by John Ruskin, Edited by Stephen Wildman” by Nic Peeters.
Meeting Notes.

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