The Lost Pre Raphaelite

Bitter Lemon Press

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When the author bought a fortified house in Staffordshire, he discovered a mysterious set of relationships revolving round a now almost forgotten artist. Robert Bateman, a prominent Pre-Raphaelite, was the son of a local millionaire and was to marry the granddaughter of the Earl of Carlisle. But he had abandoned his life as a public artist in mid-career to live as a recluse, while his father lost his money, and his glamorous wife-to-be had married the local vicar, already in his sixties and shortly to die. The discovery of two paintings by Bateman, both clearly autobiographical, led to an abso

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