EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES: THE LAST PRE-RAPHAELITE

Although he begins as one, his style moves up and away by the late 1860s and transforms into the huge paintings that relate to the vertical fifteenth century altarpieces that he absorbed on his four visits to Italy, the first two accompanied by John Ruskin. It was Burne-Jones that took English Art back to the spirit of medievalism, and it was through his love of myth and legend that the late Victorians rediscovered the middle ages.

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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mrs Daphne Lawson

Daphne Lawson has an MA by Research and Thesis from the University of Kent on Degas’s Public and Private Spectacle and a BA in Art History from London University. Since 1994, until she retired, she was the full time Art History Lecturer for The Bader College, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, the European Campus of Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. There, she taught Art History courses ranging from French Impressionism, European Romanticism and Pre-Raphaelite Painting to the survey programme spanning the period from Greek Sculpture to Contemporary British Art. She also published a chapter on Van Gogh in 2014 in The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts. Her first career was as an actress. She was trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in theatre, film and television as an actress until her thirties when she had three children.