John Brett
A Pre-Raphaelite Imperialist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158508 |
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| Authors | Christiana Payne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 154-170 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Culture in Britain (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-4787 • E-ISSN: 1941-8361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14714787.2015.1038895 |
| OpenAlex | W1520408193 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
From the direct gaze of his early self-portraits in the 1850s to the photographs he took of himself in 1889 as the head of a large family, John Brett was clearly concerned to present himself as a ‘manly’ painter. This article will argue that, eschewing the Bohemian masculinity of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Brett’s later writings, both public and private, show his allegiance to militaristic and imperialistic constructions of masculinity. These are at their purest in his role as ‘captain’ of his yacht, the appropriately named Viking, in the early to mid-1880s, a few years after he painted Britannia’s Realm (1880)
Allegiance · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · Masculinity · Militarism · Painting · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Realm · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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