Pre-Raphaelite Sisters shows women as artists, not muses.(Night and Sleep, Evelyn De Morgan, National Portrait Gallery)

“The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of rebel artists who rejected the prevailing style of the period. To feminist art historians, however, Ophelia represents something else: the brutal limitations placed upon women by the artistic establishment.”

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters shows women as artists, not muses. (The Atlantic)

Image: Night and Sleep, Evelyn De Morgan, National Portrait Gallery