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Jane Morris Tattooing Her Dad, Tattooist Darrell Morris, November 22nd 1963...
#tattoo #tattooed #janemorris #tattooing #darrellmorris #tattooartist #1960s

February 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM

abracadabrant.bsky.social

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Nikoleta Sekulovic 2025 JANE MORRIS
ROSSETTI COLLECTION
#gabrieldanterossetti #williammorris #janemorris #preraphaelite #victorianart #leightonhouse #virginiawoolf #emforster #figurativepaintings

April 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM

Jasmine Storrie

@jasminestorrie.bsky.social

#art #drawing #victorian #charcoal #rossetti #janemorris #video #process #artistsproof

September 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM

Emily Goss

@barrowmember.bsky.social

❤️ #Art #RemediosVaro #MayMorris #JaneMorris #ArtsAndCrafts

Emily Goss @barrowmember.bsky.social · Jan 23

15 Art: My latest(ish - they're running in parallel at the moment) book is about the Arts and Crafts movement, focussed on May and Jane Morris (& a fictional working class heroine). I paint for self-care & fun, adore MANY artists (Remedios Varo a favourite) & STRONGLY believe anyone can be an artist

January 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

"The Hourglass" by Evelyn De Morgan (English) - Oil on canvas / 1904-1905 - De Morgan Foundation (Barnsley, England) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #art #WomensArt #artText #FemaleArtist #WomenPaintingWomen #EnglishArtist #WomenArtists #EvelynDeMorgan #DeMorgan #DeMorganCollection #EnglishArt #JaneMorris

English painter Evelyn De Morgan (Mary Evelyn Pickering) features legendary Pre-Raphaelite muse Jane Morris (Jane Burden) who came out of "retirement" to pose for De Morgan including this thematic painting of a regal woman sitting pensively on an ornate throne, touching an hourglass, while an angelic figure plays a flute in a doorway, hinting at the passage of time and the fleeting nature of life.

In 1924, De Morgan's sister British writer Anna Marie Diana Wilhelmina Stirling (aka Wilhelmina Stirling and the alias Percival Pickering), wrote that De Morgan identified the painting as "an echo of a movement in the Waldstein Sonata (Piano Sonata No. 21) of Beethoven." This is her description:

"In an ancient chair, inlaid with ivory, a woman is seen seated. Behind her on the wall are glowing tapestries; a gold lamp of medieval design is suspended above her head. Her draperies, in wonderful hues of yellow and russet bronze, are thickly sewn with pearls, the delineation of which in correct perspective constituted a tour de force. Jewels of barbaric design accentuate the richness of her attire and gleam again from her quaint head-dress, beneath which shows the first indication of age -- her whitening locks. Meanwhile, with a brooding sorrow, her gaze is fixed upon an hourglass, clasped in her slender fingers, wherein the sands are swiftly running out: at her feet is a dying rose, and close to her lies a book on which are visible the words -- Mos Janua Vitae -- Death is the portal of life. So, too, unheeded by her, outside the open doorway stands the figure of life, the Immortal, piping joyously in the sunlight in robes of azure amid the blossoming flowers of spring."

Jane Morris was an accomplished English embroiderer in the Arts and Crafts movement, but is fondly remembered as the model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty as the muse for 20 Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings. She was also the model for De Morgan's popular 1903 "The Love Potion" painting.

August 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

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Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of #JaneMorris

#PreRaphaelite

Kirsty Stonell Walker @preraphaelicious.bsky.social · Jan 26

Embroiderer and model Jane Burden Morris died on this day in 1914.

images: Reverie (1868) Dante Gabriel Rossetti and one of the 1865 photographs by John R Parsons, taken for Rossetti.

#dotd #preraphaelite #preraphaelitewomen #preraphaelitewomenartist #artsandcrafts #embroidery

January 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM

Mind's Eye Tom

@tomr-bsky.bsky.social

#Limerick #entertainment #humor #fun #StHelensPassage #Oxford #JaneMorris #StJohnsWood #fun www.youtube.com/channel/UCnf...

September 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM

Nancy Cristiano

@nancycristiano.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

14/20

#BookSky #LizzieSiddal #Rossetti #JaneMorris #BookChallenge

February 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM

Shivauncé

@shivaunsay.bsky.social

The Water Willow, depicts Jane Morris (wife of William Morris) in her natural habitat. Seeing it in person at the Delaware Art Museum was sublime… @delartmuseum #dantegabrielrossetti #therossettis #preraphaelite #janemorris

January 9, 2024 at 5:57 AM

The William Morris Society

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Wishing all mums in the UK a Happy Mother's Day!❤️

First picture: Jane and Jenny Morris
Second picture: Jane and May Morris

#mothersday #happymothersday #janemorris #maymorris #jennymorris #williammorris #williammorrissociety #kelmscotthouse #hammersmith #londonmuseum #londonexhibition

March 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Mind's Eye Tom

@tomr-bsky.bsky.social

#Limerick #entertainment #humor #fun #StHelensPassage #Oxford #JaneMorris #StJohnsWood #fun www.youtube.com/channel/UCnf...

May 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM

Juliette

@juliettej99.bsky.social

Thank you so much to beautiful www.instagram.com/modelovivobi... for fabulous Pre-Raphaelite muses session 26.2.26
Poses of 7, 10 & 15 mins
#pre-raphaelitemuses #themedlifedrawing #longhair #redhair #ink&watercolor #waterhouse #rosetti #millais #holmanhunt #lizziesiddal #janemorris #fannycornforth

6 Ink and watercolour 10 & 15 min drawings of Bianca from 26.2.26 Pre-Raphaelite muses themed session. She has long curly red hair and is posed in different artworks from this particular art movement. Clockwise from top left
1 Standing by a curtain holding an orange
2 In a bath brushing her hair
3 Standing wrapped in blue fabric
4 Seated side view with arms raised
5 Standing holding roses and fabric
6. Standing holding a locked box

4 x 7 min Pitt Pastel drawings of Bianca from Pre-Raphaelite themed session 26.2.26. Clockwise
1. Seated half obscured by a translucent curtain
2 With head back holding a sword on her shoulder
3 Kneeling holding a sword
4. Portrait with hands held out in front of her

March 9, 2026 at 10:35 PM

Shivauncé

@shivaunsay.bsky.social

The Daydream, Sonnets & Secrets, oil on wood, Jennifer Allnutt. She has faithfully reproduced Rossetti’s Daydream, adding flowers to model, Jane Morris. I have coveted this for years and now I have my own Pre-Raphaelite painting. @jennyallnuttart @moderneden #rossetti #janemorris #preraphaelite