DAY DREAMS
By DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


DAY DREAMS
By DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)
IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON

Gabriele Rossetti, the father of the artist, was an Italian poet who lived in England as a political refugee, and became Professor of Italian at King's College. His son, naturally enough, was in due course entered as a student at King's College School, where he remained for seven years. He gave early evidence of his talent for art, and on leaving school he took up his studies in Cary's Studio, in Bloomsbury, going to the Academy " Antique" School for a year at the age of seventeen. Millais and Holman Hunt were fellow- pupils, and in 1848 they helped to found the celebrated Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. Rossetti derived great benefit from this association, for his first picture was painted under the guidance of Holman Hunt and in his studio.

In certain respects Rossetti was the most interesting member of the Brotherhood. He scrupulously followed the delineation of natural detail and effect, but he added the study of intense poetic expression on his own account. This was because he was a poet as well as a painter, a dreamer of dreams as well as an interpreter of visions in the light of tangible things.

His favourite subjects were those derived from medieval history, the " Vita Nuova" and English ballads; only on one occasion did he engage upon the illustration of the modern story. In 1857 he illustrated Tennyson's Poems, and helped in the decoration of the Union Debating Hall at Oxford, and this period was productive of some of his finest work. He was facile in water-colour as well as in oil; and he did some noteworthy decorative work, of which his altarpiece " The Adoration of the Magi," for Llandaff Cathedral, may be mentioned.

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Rosetti
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James Archer
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Bouguereau
Charity


John Brett
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Arnesby Brown
The River Bank


Joseph Clark
Mother's Darling


John Constable
The Hay-Wain


Jean Baptiste Camille
Corot
The Fisherman's Hut


Jean Baptiste Camille
Corot
A Flood


Leonardo Da Vinci
Monna Lisa


Edouard Detaille
The Dream


Henri Fantin-Latour
Flowers


Thomas Gainsborough
Queen Charlotte


Thomas Gainsborough
The Market Cart


Jean Baptiste Greuze
The Head of a Girl


Jean Baptiste Greuze
Fidelity


James Clark Hook
Home With the Tide


Alfred William Hunt
Windsor Castle


Josef Israels
The Shipwrecked Mariner


B.W. Leader
The Stream in Summer-time


Madame Vigee Le Brun
Portrait of the Artist

Alphonse Legros
A Canal With a Fisherman


Anton Mauve
Watering Horses


J.L.E. Meissonier
The Cavalier


Sir J.E. Millais
Speak! Speak!


Sir J.E. Mallais
My First Sermon


George Morland
The Reckoning


George Morland
The Inside of a Stable


Murillo
The Immaculate Conception
of the Virgin


Alfred Parsons
When Nature Painted
All Things Gay


Ralph Peacock
The Sisters


Rembrandt
Syndics of the
Cloth Merchants' Guild


Guido Reni
"Ecce Homo"


Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Mrs. Richard Hoare
With Her Infant Son


Briton Riviere
The Temptation
in the Wilderness


Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
Day Dreams


John Singer Sargent
Miss Ellen Terry
as Lady Macbeth


Lady Stanley
(Dorothy Tennant)
His First Offence


Jan Steen
Grace Before Meat


Marcus Stone
On the Road from
Waterloo to Paris


Constant Troyon
Watering Cattle


H.S. Tuke
"All Hands to the Pumps"


Velazquez
King Philip IV. of Spain


S.E. Waller
Sweethearts and Wives


Thomas Webster
The Smile

Index
Famous Paintings Volume 1
Art Gallery

Index
Famous Paintings Volume 2
Art Gallery

Index
Art Appreciation
Lessons