William Holman Hunt

The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt 's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare 's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed...

George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm . The marriage apparently proved happy. The...

VW 's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler. She was a favourite niece (and subject) of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , on whom...

Fay's maternal grandmother, whom she calls Frieda early in her autobiography but Nona from the time they became close, and who was called Susan by her husband, had modelled for Holman Hunt as a girl...

Rebecca's mother was born Martha Chatterton. Rebecca (also known as Pysie) had maintained a close relationship with GC since she was young, visiting or staying with her mother at the Chattertons', and later doing...

Her parents often hosted musical and cultural events that drew visitors from London's artistic circles. As a girl, MEC would have seen Alfred Tennyson , John Ruskin , William Holman Hunt , Fanny Kemble ...

DMC chaperoned Edith Waugh to Switzerland to marry painter William Holman Hunt , who was the widower of Waugh's deceased sister.

In London, ED met John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor . At Emily Faithfull 's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig , and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope , Louis Blanc

While in Paris, they lunched with Anna Swanwick , who introduced them to Holman Hunt and his wife . On the same trip they met William Michael Rossetti .

The artistic pursuits of EG 's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

She met him again through their mutual friend Mrs Nassau Senior . Watts's biographer Ronald Chapman suggests that Watts needed Barrington as a mirror to show him his reflection, to present to him an encouraging...

MBL began her married life with a daily servant (who came at 8 a.m. and stayed till 9 p.m.) instead of the live-in one her mother had employed. Though she was a great attender at...

William Holman Hunt wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation.The Athenæum reviewer praised this version as being the only selection suitable for a...

Shortly before her death, MEC finished her work on an illustrated life of the still-living Pre-Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt.

While ES was working as a dressmaker in a milliner's shop, she came into contact with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood through a connection with the family of the principal of the London School of Design ...