Joanna, George and Henry

O?ers a touching and extremely interesting group portrait that adds to our knowledge of these artists, as well as to Pre-Raphaelitism more generally. * PRE-RAPHAELITE SOCIETY REVIEW *
Offers new insights on life in a close-knit Victorian family as well as into the painter's profession in mid-19th-century Britain. Debra Mancoff, * THE ART NEWSPAPER *
Sue Bradbury [...] has done a superb job. * CONTEMPORARY REVIEW *
Ultimately, this is Joanna's story; with her passing, one obituarist wrote: 'English art has lost more than it knows.' Sue Bradbury, 152 years later, has finally remedied this oversight. * THE CHURCH TIMES *
A masterful group portrait of the lives of three Pre-Raphaelite artists that serves as a slice of social history. [This] wonderful book is compulsive reading, partly, of course, because Sue Bradbury has done full justice to some terrific and important material, but mostly because of Joanna Boyce herself. * APOLLO *
A welcome feature of the book is its many illustrations of unpublished works.. [...] For the art historian, the book contains a good deal of interest. * THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE *
A richly contextualised account of one of the most intriguing artistic families in mid-Victorian Britain. [...] Thanks to this book [Joanna Boyce] deserves to find a new audience as not only a painter, but also a woman of wit and determination in a world weighted against her ambitions. * COUNTRY LIFE *
The light their correspondence shines on the more famous painters of the period is delightful. [...] Social history at its most fascinating. * THE SPECTATOR *
An enjoyable study of people and their lives and gives some interesting insights on the difficulties a woman faced as a professional painter in the nineteenth century. * BIBLIOBUFFET.COM *