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Free download - desktop wallpaper for March 2010

Each month ArtMagick offers a free desktop wallpaper download, imprinted with that month's calendar. The download for March 2010 is now available. more »

The Grange, Sir Edward Burne-Jones' home

'Go down the Cromwell Road till your cabhorse drops dead, and then ask someone.' The Grange, 49 North End Road, Fulham, was the London home of the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones. more »

Artists at Home: Life in the "Bush" - Walter Crane

If you're a Londoner and travel on the Underground's Central Line, next time you pass through Shepherd's Bush remember the artists Walter Crane and Sir Edward Poynter as their former homes in Wood Lane were torn down in the mid 1890s to make room for the terminus of the Central London Railway in Shepherd's Bush. more »

The Four Stages of Knighthood, as illustrated by Edmund Blair Leighton

Featuring four paintings by Edmund Blair Leighton - Vox Populi, the Dedication, the Accolade and God Speed. more »

Rosslyn Chapel's Apprentice Pillar

This 1897 painting by Phil R. Morris appears to be a romanticised Victorian interpretation of the tale behind the famed Apprentice Pillar, found inside Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh in Scotland. more »

John Lane's 'Keynote Series': 1890s decadent novels

Aubrey Beardsley illustrated the series of modern "woman-friendly" novels published by John Lane in the mid 1890s as a response to the emergence of the concept of the "New Woman". more »

Lessons in Anatomy (according to Burne-Jones)

These drawings were drawn when Philip Carr, the son of J. Comyns Carr, a friend of Burne-Jones, was seven years old, and Burne-Jones was painting Philip's portrait. more »

The Masque of War and Peace

Photo from 'The Masque of War and Peace', a charity benefit performance held at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1900 more »

Love Among the Ruins - a Burne-Jones painting in ruins

Free download - desktop wallpaper for February 2010

Each month ArtMagick offers a free desktop wallpaper download, imprinted with that month's calendar. The download for February 2010 is now available. more »

Artists at Home - Lord Leighton

The Pre-Raphaelites and Rolls-Royce: Old World Meets New World

An odd title indeed! But the connection between worlds can be made in the persons of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and Charles Rolls. more »

The Solway Martyr - X Marks the Spot

The painting tells a story of 17th century religious intolerance: Millais' martyr was Margaret Wilson, a religious heretic who was sentenced to death by drowning in 1685. more »