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The Reflected Glory of Victorian Art | by Jenny Uglow | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books Arnolfini Portrait, Pre Raphaelites, Pre Raphaelite Art, Google Art Project, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Tate Gallery, Pre Raphaelite, A4 Poster

Why do mirrors appear so often in Victorian paintings? “Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites” suggests an answer. Often, the artists ask us to see the image they are “reflecting on”—whether it be from a poem or from domestic life, like the father with his arms outstretched in Ford Madox Brown’s Take your Son, Sir! (1851–1857), left brutally unfinished when his small son died. And, of course, as we stand before the pictures, a real rather than painted mirror would reflect ourselves…

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