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John Brett, ‘Christina Rossetti’ (unfinished), 1857. As regards the portrait’s symbolic meaning, much depends on an interpretation of the prominent feather, beautifully painted with a Ruskinian fidelity to nature (Charles Brett, 2005). Jan Marsh (1994) has suggested this may symbolise a quill representing Christina’s vocation as a writer. While this is possible, it ignores the fact that the work is unfinished and one must try to imagine the completed picture.... Famous Landscape Paintings, Pre Raphaelite Paintings, Julia Margaret Cameron, Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, John Edwards, John William Waterhouse

John Brett, ‘Christina Rossetti’ (unfinished), 1857. As regards the portrait’s symbolic meaning, much depends on an interpretation of the prominent feather, beautifully painted with a Ruskinian fidelity to nature (Charles Brett, 2005). Jan Marsh (1994) has suggested this may symbolise a quill representing Christina’s vocation as a writer. While this is possible, it ignores the fact that the work is unfinished and one must try to imagine the completed picture....

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