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Two Lovers in a Starlit Garden

Sir Joseph Noel Paton, 1862

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Paton became friends with Millais while at the Royal Academy and this work owes an obvious debt to Millais' composition of two figures in the 1850s (The Return of the Dove, 1851; Huguenot on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1852; The Black Brunswicker, 1859-60, Liverpool). Paton declined Millais's invitation to join the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood burt remained sympathetic to their aims.

More information

Title of artwork, date

Two Lovers in a Starlit Garden, 1862

Date supported

2002

Medium and material

Pen & brown ink on paper

Dimensions

19.1 x 10.8 cm

Grant

1500

Total cost

6000

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