Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman Exhibit at Delaware Art Museum (US)
Delaware Art Museum exhibit entry room
I will be attending the only U.S. museum exhibit for one of the most forgotten and possibly still unknown female artists of the nineteenth-century, Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927). Some museum exhibit details: Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman runs from November 7,2015 - January 31,2016,Delaware Art Museum, located in Wilmington, Delaware. It is about two anda half hours outside of New York City by public transportation. Just to give you an idea of the location.
Marie Stillman (nee Spartali) by unknown photographer, snapshot print, circa 1921, NPG
Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927) was one of a small number of
professional female artists working in the second half of the 19th
century. She was an important presence in the Victorian art world of her
time and closely affiliated with members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Poetry in Beauty,
the first retrospective of Spartali Stillman’s work, will showcase
approximately 50 works by the artist. Spartali Stillman’s style reflects
her British Pre-Raphaelite training as well as the influence of
Renaissance art, derived from the many years she lived and worked in
Italy. Works from public and private collections in the United States,
United Kingdom, and Canada, many of which have not been exhibited since
Spartali Stillman’s lifetime, will also be on view.
Marie Stillman (nee Spartali) by unknown photographer, snapshot print, undated, NPG
Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman
is co-curated by Margaretta Frederick, Chief Curator and Annette
Woolard-Provine Curator of the Delaware Art Museum’s Bancroft Collection
of Pre-Raphaelite Art, and Pre-Raphaelite scholar Jan Marsh. The
Delaware Art Museum is the only United States venue for this landmark
exhibition. It will travel, in reduced format, to the Watts Gallery,
Compton, Guildford, England, where it will be on view March 1 – June 5,
2016. (Delaware Art Museum)
If you would like to learn about the life of Marie Spartali Stillman then I highly recommend the book above, 'A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage' by David B. Elliott. Also, you can read one of my earlier articles, Marie Spartali Stillman
SOME OF MARIE'S BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS
Kelmscott Manor: Feeding Doves in Kitchen Yard,1904. Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927). Watercolor and gouache on paper, 13 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches. Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor).
The Pilgrim Folk, 1914. Marie Spartali Stillman
(1844 1927). Watercolor and gouache on paper, 22 3/8 x 27 11/16 inches.
Delaware Art Museum
Love's Messenger, 1885. Marie Spartali Stillman
(1844 1927). Watercolor, tempera, and gold paint on paper mounted on
wood, 32 x 26 inches. Delaware Art Museum
Beatrice, 1896. Marie Spartali Stillman (1844 1927). Watercolor and gouache on paper, 22 11/16 x 17 inches. Delaware Art Museum
For a direct link to the exhibit itself, Delaware Art Museum
UPCOMING DELAWARE ART MUSEUM LECTURE: I will be attending this
event which strangely enough takes place on my birthday, January 21, 2016 and
is Julia Margaret Cameron themed: The Image of a Woman Artist: Julia
Margaret Cameron’s Photographs of Marie Spartali Stillman, 6:30-7:30pm.
In the 1860s, Marie Spartali Stillman was a popular model for Dante
Gabriel Rossetti and other Pre-Raphaelite painters. When Spartali posed for
photographer Julia Margaret Cameron in 1868, she was just beginning to receive
public recognition as a painter in her own right. Joanne Lukitsh, Massachusetts
College of Art and Design Professor of the History of Art, will examine
Cameron’s photographs of Spartali as a young female artist of the Victorian
period.
Portrait of
Marie Spartali by Julia Margaret Cameron, Albumen Print, 1870, Swann Galleries,
New York.

Comments
I hope you got to see the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibit in Australia. I would love to hear all about it. You know, this exhibit will be at Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, England, next March 2016. Hopefully, you can take a trip and visit the exhibit. Thank you so much for commenting :)
I am really excited to see this exhibition. I'm so glad my links worked. I had such formatting trouble. I'm so happy this exhibit is coming to the Watts Gallery. It's such a beautiful space as well. Yes, I would put her up there along side Rossetti. Yes, she was one of the women in Rossetti's painting, Dantes Dream, 1871. The woman on the far right, the tall redhead standing up would be her! Also, she was the one woman in Rossetti's A Vision of Fiammetta, 1878.
Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving a comment.
I'm so happy you went to Watts Gallery to see the exhibit. How exciting. Thanks so much for telling me.