PORTRAITS OF WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS CIRCLE


William Morris
Morris & Co.
Members of the Morris circle

 

William Morris


Morris & Co.


Members of the Morris circle

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Poet, diplomat, anti-Imperialist, breeder of Arabian horses, and lover of Jane Morris

Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
Secretary of the Kelmscott Press, disciple of Morris and Ruskin, collector, later Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jane Burden Morris
Morris's wife, embroiderer, lover of D. G. Rossetti and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Charles Fairfax Murray
Artist, collector, assistant to D. G. Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Morris

Christina G. Rossetti
Poet and fiction writer

  • Photograph by Lewis Carroll [C. L. Dodgson] (7 October 1863), with her brothers, WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI and DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, and her mother, MARIA ROSSETTI [Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet, lover of Jane Morris, original partner in Morris & Co.
See also under WILLIAM MORRIS above

William Michael Rossetti
Art critic, editor of Shelley and The Germ, civil servant, and memoirist

  • Photograph by Lewis Carroll [C. L. Dodgson] (7 October 1863), with his sister, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, his brother, DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, and his mother, MARIA ROSSETTI [Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs]

John Ruskin
Art critic, artist, and social thinker, major influence on Morris
See also under WILLIAM MORRIS above

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
Artist, poet, wife of D. G. Rossetti

Simeon Solomon
Painter and writer

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poet and critic
See also under WILLIAM MORRIS above

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet laureate of England

  • Tennyson Reading "Maud," drawing by D. G. Rossetti (27 September 1855) [Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library]

Philip Webb
Architect, designer, partner in Morris & Co.

Marie Zambaco (née Casavetti)
Scultptor, model, Burne-Jones's muse and lover

  • Photograph (1866) [from Eileen Casavetti, "The Fateful Meeting, the Fruitful Passion," Antique Collector, March 1989]

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