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Jacobean crewelwork embroidery showing the tree-of-life motif with stylized flowers and birds in wool on linen

Jacobean designs are the decorative patterns England produced under King James I, who reigned from 1603 to 1625. The style slots in between Elizabethan decoration (1558-1603) and the later Caroline...

Jacobean designs are the decorative patterns England produced under King James I, who reigned from 1603 to 1625. The style slots in between Elizabethan decoration (1558-1603) and the later Caroline...

Dining room with bold large-scale floral statement wallpaper covering one wall

Statement wallpaper is wallpaper that refuses to blend in. Instead of sitting quietly behind your sofa and your art, it becomes the first thing you notice walking into the room,...

Statement wallpaper is wallpaper that refuses to blend in. Instead of sitting quietly behind your sofa and your art, it becomes the first thing you notice walking into the room,...

John William Waterhouse's painting The Lady of Shalott showing the lady drifting in a boat toward Camelot and her death

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) was an English painter known for working first in the academic style of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton and then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and...

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) was an English painter known for working first in the academic style of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton and then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and...

Photographic portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne with his characteristic red hair and Victorian dress

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic, one of the major Victorian poets and a leading figure in the broader Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic circles. Swinburne...

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic, one of the major Victorian poets and a leading figure in the broader Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic circles. Swinburne...

Thomas Woolner's bronze portrait medallion of Alfred Tennyson from 1857

Thomas Woolner (1825-1892) was an English sculptor and poet, the only sculptor among the seven founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848). Woolner was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk, on December...

Thomas Woolner (1825-1892) was an English sculptor and poet, the only sculptor among the seven founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848). Woolner was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk, on December...

James Collinson's painting The Renunciation of Queen Elizabeth of Hungary showing the medieval queen renouncing her crown

James Collinson (1825-1881) was an English Victorian painter and a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848). Collinson was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on May 9, 1825, and died in...

James Collinson (1825-1881) was an English Victorian painter and a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848). Collinson was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on May 9, 1825, and died in...