In 1842, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434) was acquired by the National Gallery in London. It quickly exerted an influence on British artists, none more so than the young painters of the nascent Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who were drawn to van Eyck’s luminous palette, attention to detail, and refined manipulation of oil paints. This book presents the Arnolfini Portrait with a selection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings it inspired. The authors explore how Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt, among others, were influenced by the Arnolfini Portrait, informing their belief in empirical observation and inspiring them to explore how everyday objects could be endowed with symbolic meanings.
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:National Gallery, London
(10/02/17–04/02/18)
- ISBN10 1857096193
- ISBN13 9781857096194
- Publish Date 3 October 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint National Gallery Company Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English