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Whistler illustrated his own double nature by his signature: a butterfly with a stinger in its tail. Dante Gabriel Rossetti took note of the artist's duality in a limerick...
...London one day in 1861 Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his great friend, Poet Algernon Swinburne, rummaging through the penny book box at Bookseller Quaritch's, made a sensational "find" - the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam rendered into English by an anonymous translator. "Next day," Swinburne reported crossly, "when we returned for more [copies], the price was raised to the iniquitous and exorbitant sum of twopence. You should have heard . . . the . . . impressive severity of Gabriel's humorous expostulations with [Mr. Quaritch], on behalf of a defrauded if limited public...
P.R.B. stood for the "PreRaphaelite Brotherhood." The original Brothers were three Englishmen out of joint with their early Victorian times: William Holman Hunt (21), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (20), John Everett Millais (19). They hoped to recapture the spiritual vigor and simplicity of 14th-and 15th-Century Italian art, and they desired to practice Ruskin's thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master...
...Paul Joseph Sachs, a present-day inheritor of Norton's mantle, considers the Fogg's Pre-Raphaelite possessions just as fascinating as they are vapid, but tells his students that they should be considered in relation to the literature of their day. No one could deny that Rossetti's sickly sweet Blessed Damozel (see cut) seemed a little better on reading his verses inscribed on the frame...
...Spiritual Wives." By that time, Watts' silky beard was greying and he was known as "Signer" to many a famous, whiskered Victorian. Statesman Gladstone and Disraeli, Poets Tennyson and Browning, Novelists Thackeray and George Eliot, Ruskin, and the young pre-Raphaelite Painters Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt all came to pose, or admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough...