Frederic George Stephens (1828-March 9, 1907) was one of the two 'nonartistic' members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and an art critic. 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Persephone, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ... An art critic is normally a person who have a speciality in giving reviews mainly of the types of fine art you will find on display. Typically the art critic will go to an art exhibition where works of art are displayed in the traditional way in localities especially made...

Stephens was born to Septimus Stephens of Aberdeen and Ann (née Cooke) in Walworth, London and grew up in nearby Lambeth. Because of an accident in 1837, he was physically disabled and educated privately. He later attended University College School, London. In 1844 he entered the Royal Academy Schools where he first met Sir John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. He joined their Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, often modelling for them in pictures including Millais's Ferdinand Lured by Ariel (1849) and Ford Madox Brown's Jesus Washing Peter's Feet (1852-6). There is a pencil portrait of Stephens by Millais dated 1853 in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. He was so disappointed by his own artistic talent that he took up art criticism and stopped painting. He claimed to have destroyed all his paintings in 1850 but three of them are still at the Tate Gallery, London: The Proposal (The Marquis and Griselda) (circa 1850), Morte d'Arthur (circa 1850-55), and Mother and Child (circa 1854) along with a pencil drawing of his mother (1850). This article is about the Scottish city. ... Walworth is a place in the London Borough of Southwark, between Camberwell and Elephant and Castle. ... Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... University College School entrance, Frognal, Hampstead University College School, known generally as UCS, is a British independent school situated in Hampstead, northwest London. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ... John Everett Millais (June 8, 1829–August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator who was one of founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. ... William Holman Hunt - Self-Portrait William Holman Hunt (April 2, 1827 - September 7, 1910) was a British painter. ... The Last of England, 1855 Ford Madox Brown (April 16, 1821 - October 6, 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. ... The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in central London which was opened in 1856. ... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ...

He communicated the aims of the Brotherhood to the public. He became the art critic and later the art editor of the Athenaeum while writing freelance for other art-history periodicals on the continent and the United States including Art Journal and Portfolio (magazine). His contributions to the Brotherhood's magazine The Germ were made under the pseudonyms Laura Savage and John Seward. During this time he was heavily influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whom he allowed to write reviews of his own work under Stephen's name. The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London from 1828 to 1921. ... Illustration by Holman Hunt to Thomas Woolners poem My Beautiful Lady, published in The Germ, 1850 The Germ was a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to diseminate their ideas. ... Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 - April 10, 1882) was an English poet, painter and translator. ...

Stephen's first work of art history, Normandy: its Gothic Architecture and History was published in 1865, and Flemish Relics, a history of Netherlandish art, appeared in 1866. Monographs on William Mulready (1867) and on Edwin Landseer (1869) followed. In 1873 he started writing series of almost 100 articles on British collecting for the Athenaeum; these treated major collections and small collectors alike thus encouraging middle-class art patronage and the growing Victorian interest for contemporary art. William Mulready (April 1, 1786 - June 7, 1863) was an Irish genre painter living in London. ... Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer, 1851: the image was widely distributed in steel engravings Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (March 7, 1802 - October 1, 1873) was a British painter, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. ...

He was also Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum and wrote most entries in the first volumes of the Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Division I: Political and Personal Satires, from 1870 onward. In 1875, Stephensbegan to characterise himself as an art historian rather than a criticand in 1877 he started to write contributions for the Grosvenor Gallery catalogues, which he continued to do until 1890. When Rossetti died Stephens co-wrote his obituary for the edition of Athenaeum dated April 15, 1882 and left the Brotherhood. He began to write more neutral accounts of their work and criticized Holman Hunt's Triumph of the Innocents {1885) for its mixing of hyper-realism and fantasy. Almost twenty years later Hut retaliated by launching a scathing attack on Stephens in the second edition of his Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1914). In 1894, Stephens published a Portfolio monograph on Rossetti. He contributed essays on art to Henry Duff Traill's Social England: a Record of the Progress of the People (1893–7) placing Pre-Raphaelitism in a continuing tradition of British art. This contradicted the Brotherhood's view that they had flowered uniquely from a pallid past. In 1895 he published a book on Lawrence Alma-Tadema and his review of the posthumous exhibition of Millais in 1898 took the painter to task for poorly thought-out works. The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ... The Grosvenor Gallery is an art gallery founded in London in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Henry Duff Traill (1842 – 1900), British author and journalist, was born at Blackheath on 14 August 1842. ... Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (January 8, 1836--June 25, 1912) was a Dutch-born painter of the Victorian era, best known for his sumptuous portrayals of life in the ancient world. ...

Other artists about whom he wrote include Thomas Bewick, Edward Burne-Jones, George Cruikshank, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, Edwin Landseer, William Mulready, Samuel Palmer, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Rowlandson, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, and Thomas Woolner. Look up Artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Thomas Bewick (August 1753 - November 8, 1828) was an English wood engraver and ornithologist. ... Love Among the Ruins, by Edward Burne-Jones. ... George Cruikshank (September 27, 1792 – February 1, 1878) was an English artist and caricaturist, well-known for his satirical illustrations of contemporary figures and events. ... Self-portrait, painted 1759 Blue boy, painted 1770 This article is about the artist Thomas Gainsborough. ... William Hogarth, self-portrait, 1745 William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764) was a major English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. ... Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer, 1851: the image was widely distributed in steel engravings Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (March 7, 1802 - October 1, 1873) was a British painter, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. ... William Mulready (April 1, 1786 - June 7, 1863) was an Irish genre painter living in London. ... Self-portrait of the young Samuel Palmer, circa 1824. ... Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (July 16, 1723–February 23, 1792) was the most important and influential of eighteenth-century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the Grand Style in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. ... Thomas Rowlandson (July 1756 - April 22, 1827) was an English caricaturist. ... Self Portrait With a Sunflower Sir Anthony (Antoon) van Dyck (*March 22, 1599 - December 9, 1641) was a Flemish painter — mainly of portraits — who became the leading court painter in England. ... Statue of Sir Stamford Raffles by Woolner, erected at the spot where he first landed at Singapore. ...

Stephens' conservative views on modern art and his strong dislike of Impressionism ended his forty-year association with the Athenaeum. Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. ...

Stephens married the artist Rebecca Clara Dalton in 1866. They had a son Holman Frederic (1869-) and at the time of the 1881 census the family was living at 10 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith. Stephens died at home on March 9, 1907 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery. His collection of art and books was auctioned at Fosters in 1916, after his widow's death. The Lyric theatre is just one of the arts and entertainment venues that have made Hammersmith a worthy rival to the West End. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Brompton Cemetery is a cemetery located in Earls Court, a part of the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea in west London, England. ...

He is sometimes cited as the great exponent of writer's block: He started to write a political sonnet for the first number of The Germ magazine. On October 13, 1849 he had completed 11½ lines, which he showed to James Collinson, who said they were "the best of all." By November 12 it had "attained the length of 12 lines, with the reservation of a tremendous idea for the final two." The magazine appeared in January 1850 but the poem was never published. Writers block is the phenomenon in which a writer temporarily loses the capability to continue writing. ... Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, one of the best-known of the early Italian sonnet writers For the Saab automobile, see Saab Sonett. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Holy Family by James Collinson, 1850 James Collinson (May 9, 1825 - January 24, 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ...

See also

• English school of painting