Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as revealing new insights into influential artworks.

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

Two exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ballarat offer visitors a chance to get up close with Pre-Raphaelite works. In partnership with the Art Gallery of Ballarat, we sit down with the gallery’s ...

Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...

A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: Evelyn & William De Morgan in Wilmington, Delaware, showcases paintings and ceramics by two underrecognized yet influential artists. Evelyn De Morgan, “Flora” (detail) ...

The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...

It isn’t immediately obvious, to contemporary eyes, what made the art of the American Pre-Raphaelites seem so ugly and so radical to 19th-century critics. Their intimately detailed water colors and ...

For an episode of the Art Angle podcast, we asked Artnet News writers and editors to tell us about one work of art that brings them joy. The following is a part of a series of transcripts of the ...

The National Gallery of Art’s exhibit “The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting” welcomed me with a depiction of two lovers embracing each other passionately. At first glimpse, I had ...

Every day, Wilmingtonians encounter legacies of the Bancroft family. Samuel Bancroft Jr. (1840-1915) and William Bancroft (1835-1928) radically reshaped Wilmington by preserving public green space, ...

Christie’s British Art: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art auction in London features a curated selection of works representing more than 150 years of history and encompassing a ...