Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamond in paintings
![Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamond in paintings](/content/images/size/w2000/2024/04/Arthur_Hughes_-_Fair_Rosamund_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg)
Eleanor confronts Rosamond inside the secret bower. The painting below is by late pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn de Morgan from around 1901 to 1905. She was a fascinating figure in her own right, believing in spiritualism, feminism (she supported the suffragettes) and pacifism. Many of her paintings are women-centered. Note the red roses and cherubs for Eleanor; the white ones for Rosamond.
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Below is an earlier Pre-Raphaelite painting, Frederick Sandys' Queen Eleanor (1858), holding the poison chalice and dagger, we presume.
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Below is Edward Burne-Jones' Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor (1861).
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Finally, William Bell Scott's Fair Rosamund in her Bower (1854)
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