See the work of Kate Greenaway and Helen Allingham, two life-long friends who fashioned popular images of Victorian life.
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) and Helen Allingham (1848-1926) were renowned artists and illustrators, Hampstead residents and close friends. As young women in the 1860s, they were both caught up in the government's new plan to promote a national style of art and design in the aftermath of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The pair met and an evening class at the newly founded Slade School.
Victorian Idylls considers the evolution of the work produced by these life-long friends and how they created enduringly popular visions of an idealised Victorian life.
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