The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood blog, maintained by Stephanie Graham Pina.Read about Kirsty’s extraordinary discovery of the grave of Fanny Cornforth (Sarah Cox) on the Guardian!.It contains a wealth of careful research and curious anecdotes – recommended background reading for the conference! Kirsty Stonell Walker, one of our keynote speakers, has been keeping a blog, The Kissed Mouth, since 2011.The National Portrait Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, opens on 17 October 2019 and forms the backdrop to the Making Art conference.This book, however, will provide both the story of Red House and a 'virtual tour' to enable the reader to see how the house looked and functioned when William Morris, his family and friends lived there. Visitors will be able to see some of the original furnishings but many are now at Kelmscott Manor, the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, the Victoria & Albert Museum and other locations. Red House was saved from an uncertain future in January 2003 by the National Trust, and has already opened its doors. His biographer recorded that he could 'never set eyes on it again, confessing that the sight of it would be more than he could bear'.
Rosetti described it as 'more a poem than a house', Morris called it 'our place of art', and when he was obliged to give it up for financial reasons in 1865, he resolved never to return. With his young wife and his wealth he planned to produce a vision of earthly paradise at Red House. He had recently married Jane Burden, daughter of an Oxford ostler, whose particular beauty became inspiration for so much pre-Raphaelite art. He was only twenty-five when, in 1858 he decided to buy the site at Bexleyheath, just outside London, but in a rural Kentish setting. But it is also a house that captured William Morris's heart. It had a great influence on the Arts & Crafts Movement. Read more furnishing the house inspired Morris to found the design firm of Morris & Co. It was the first independent architectural commission from his friend, Philip Webb. It was the first and only house that William Morris ever built.
Red House occupies an extraordinary place in British architectural history. The challenge of furnishing the house inspired Morris to found the design firm of Morris & Co. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL ACVN AGB AMKD AMR. Num Pages: 160 pages, 120 colour and 30 black & white illustrations. Description for William Morris and Red House Hardcover.
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