The entrance foyer
Ford Madox Brown, Work 1852–65, Manchester Art Gallery; Robert Braithwaite Martineau, Picciola 1853, Tate and Robert Braithwaite Martineau, The last day in the old home 1862, Tate
John William Waterhouse, Circe Invidiosa 1892, AGSA; John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott 1888, Tate and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Astarte Syriaca 1877, Manchester Art Gallery
The entrance foyer
14 December 2018 – 28 April 2019, National Gallery of Australia
Organised in cooperation with Tate London
Curated by Dr Carol Jacobi of Tate Britain, in collaboration with NGA Curator Dr Lucina Ward, Love and Desire presented over 100 works by 21 artists, and was considered to be the most ambitious exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces ever assembled in Australia.
With 40 of the Tate’s most famous and best-loved Pre-Raphaelite paintings on display with the other most important works of the period from institutions in the United Kingdom, we were able to presented a unique and stunning survey of the rebellious and revolutionary art of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
Tate Director Dr Maria Balshaw and NGA Director Nick Mitzevich announce the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at Tate Britain in late 2018
While this exhibition built on the NGA and Tate’s long standing relationship, we were also incredibly grateful for the generosity of the other UK lenders, including: Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool; Manchester Art Gallery; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Leeds Museums and Galleries and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, who allowed their greatest works to travel to Australia to join works from Australian private collectors and major Australasian institutions.
In a world-first, the Tate loaned both John Everett Millais’ Ophelia and John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott for display in Canberra. These two much loved, destination paintings had never-before left the walls of the Tate at the same time.
