Zoom Lecture: Jane Morris – the Pre-Raphaelite muse

 

Jane Morris - Pre-Raphaelite Muse
Lecture by John Hawks

On Zoom from the UK at 2 pm EST
Sunday, February 11, 2024

 Portrait of Jane Morris by John Robert Parsons

Jane Morris’s highly individual beauty, a symbol of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, was made famous through her many portraits by her long-time lover, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In the shadow of her illustrious husband William Morris, she has been unfairly neglected by posterity. 

 

John Hawks, founder of Merton Abbey Mills, director of Wandle Heritage Limited and curator of the Merton Priory Chapter House Museum, looks at the life and contribution of someone who most certainly was ‘not just a pretty face’.