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| Michele Gordigiani Josephine Catherine Denise Carré, Lady Reeve De la Pole ca. 1860 oil on canvas National Trust, Shute Barton, Devon |
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| Frederick Richard Pickersgill Samson Betrayed 1862 oil on canvas National Trust, Benthall Hall, Shropshire |
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| Robert Collinson Ordered on Foreign Service 1863 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Frederick Sandys Morgan le Fay 1864 oil on panel Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| George Richmond Comus ca. 1864 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
from Comus
Braid your locks with rosy twine,
Dropping odours, dropping wine.
Rigour now is gone to bed;
And Advice with scrupulous head,
Strict Age, and sour Severity,
With their grave saws, in slumber lie.
We, that are of purer fire,
Imitate the starry quire,
Who, in their nightly watchful spheres,
Lead in swift round the months and years.
The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove,
Now to the moon in wavering morrice move;
And on the tawny sands and shelves
Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
By dimpled brook and fountain-brim,
The wood-nymphs, decked with daisies trim,
The merry wakes and pastimes keep:
What hath night to do with sleep?
– John Milton (1634)
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blue Bower 1865 oil on canvas Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Raffaello Sorbi Italian Girl with Doves 1866 oil on canvas National Trust, Cragside House, Northumberland |
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| Albert Joseph Moore Pomegranates 1866 oil on canvas Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| John Dawson Watson Inspiration 1866 oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Édouard Dubufe The Magdalen by Lamplight ca. 1866 oil on copper York Art Gallery |
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| Simeon Solomon Bacchus 1867 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| John Everett Millais Jephthah 1867 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Ford Madox Brown Romeo and Juliet 1867 watercolour and bodycolour on paper Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |
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| George Frederic Watts Orpheus and Eurydice 1869 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Edward Poynter Head of St George (study for mosaic) ca. 1869 oil on panel Parliamentary Art Collection, London |