'The Soul of the Rose' by John Waterhouse

'Often associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, who aimed to recapture the beauty and simplicity of the medieval world, John William Waterhouse was also a classical painter. Born the year the Pre-Raphaelites first exhibited at the Royal Academy, he inherited their taste for Alfred Tennyson, John Keats and William Shakespeare and was fascinated by beauty, the underworld and myths of enchantresses.'

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