LATEST PRS NEWS Nov/Dec 2019

New PRS Event Booking Now Online!

We have had a very busy year here at the Pre-Raphaelite Society, what with an increase in membership from people both in the UK and all around the world, to a brand new website and three wonderful issues of the Society's Review! Now we are adding, for the first time, the facility for you to buy your PRS Events tickets online! Go to the PRS page at TicketSource to purchase your tickets with a credit or debit card.  See below for news about our forthcoming 2020 Events Series.

PRS Events & Lectures for 2020

Our PRS Events Co-ordinator is currently putting together an Events & Lectures series for you and we are excited to announce our first two lectures for January and February 2020. Dr Jasmine Allen, Director and Curator of the Stained Glass Museum in Ely, will give a talk on 25 January about the Pre-Raphaelites and stained glass at the Museum in Ely and on 22 February, Dr Laura MacCulloch, Curator at Royal Holloway, Univ of London, will give a talk on Ford Madox Brown. For more information go to our Events page HERE. You can also check out our other proposed lectures and events on this page.

Simeon Solomon 'Special Issue' of the PRS Review in 2020!

We are also excited to announce that next year we will produce a 'special' issue of the PRS Review guest edited by Dr Carolyn Conroy and Dr Roberto Ferrari on Simeon Solomon. This issue commemorates the 180th birthday of Simeon Solomon in 2020 and the 20th anniversary of the online Simeon Solomon Research Archive. To accompany this special issue there will also be a talk on the artist in September 2020. Watch this space for more information!
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Image: Simeon Solomon, Toilette of a Roman Lady (1869), The London Folio Society

PRS Reviews in 2019

Our new PRS Editor, Katja Robinson, has produced three wonderful issues of the PRS Review in 2019.  This year Katja has brought a new look to the Review including with full colour covers and many colour images inside. In the Spring we reproduced and celebrated the essays and poetry of our John Pickard Essay Prize & PRS Poetry Prize winners alongside book and exhibition reviews. The Summer issue saw essays on Edward Burne-Jones, Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others, as well as a new feature called 'Gallery Focus'. Autumn's edition produced essays on Evelyn De Morgan, the Marchmont Mural Cycle and Pre-Raphaelite Muses and included poetry and another 'Gallery Focus', this time on the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 2020 promises to be another great year for the PRS, so if you haven't renewed your membership yet, you can do so on this website HERE - and for those of you who are considering membership, go to our membership pages HERE. You can still benefit from our 15 months for 12 months membership offer until 31st December 2019 HERE!

Rupert Maas and the PRS Founder's Day Lecture & AGM
​19 October 2019

We were delighted that Rupert Maas (The Maas Gallery, BBC's Antiques Roadshow) gave our Founder's Day Lecture in Birmingham on 19th October 2019. Rupert spoke about 'Charles Allston Collins and the Rediscovery of a Lost Pre-Raphaelite Painting'. The talk was also full of interesting and witty anecdotes and was throughly enjoyed by all who attended - (a full report of Rupert's lecture can be found in the Autumn copy of our Review.

Our Founder's Day Lecture and AGM are free to all members of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and takes place in October of each year.
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