Acquired by the National Gallery in 1842, the Arnolfini Portrait informed the Pre-Raphaelites’ belief in empirical observation, their ideas about draftsmanship, color and technique, and the ways in which objects in a picture could carry symbolic meaning.
The exhibition will bring together for the first time the ‘Arnolfini Portrait‘ with paintings from the Tate collection and loans from other museums, to explore the ways in which Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896) and William Holman Hunt (1827–1910), among others, were influenced by the painting in their work.
Jan van Eyck (act. 1422-1441) Portrait of Giovanni(?) Arnolfini and his Wife, 1434
The National gallery, London
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