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Romance and Rebellion: The Art of the Victorians

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 – 1898) Cupid Delivering Psyche, 1967, courtesy of the Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

6th May 2017 - 17th September 2017

Free Entry

This new exhibition drawn from the internationally acclaimed Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Collection is romp through Victorian art. No other period in art history has been so full of stylistic extremes from the older traditional artists to the Aesthetes, the Pre-Raphaelites to the Decadents and the Social Satirists to the Exquisites. The exhibition charts the period chronological showing how these styles grew and flourished alongside one another. The exhibition features the work of J.M.W. Turner, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, Richard Dadd and Aubrey Beardsley.