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Article: Samuel Bancroft and collecting English art.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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At the turn of the twentieth century American taste in foreign art was focused almost exclusively on France, and there was a general disregard for the work of the English Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, among them Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), and John Everett Millais (1829-1896). The brotherhood officially came together between 1848 and 1853, and significantly influenced the next generation of painters and artisans. What then was the inspiration for Samuel Bancroft (Pl. III), a successful cotton manufacturer in Wilmington, Delaware, to assemble what is today the premier collection of Pre-Raphaelite art in the United States?
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... ... Delaware Art Museum is home to the most important collection of Pre-Raphaelite art in the U.S. Assembled largely by Samuel Bancroft Jr., the collection includes paintings, works on paper, decorative arts, manuscripts, and letters, and is augmented ...
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