Medea (Sandys painting)

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Medea

Frederick Sandys, 1868

Oil on canvas

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham

Medea is an oil painting on canvas by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Frederick Sandys which was created in 1868. The painting was submitted to the Royal Academy of Arts for display in the Summer Exhibition of 1868 but it was rejected - most likely for political rather than artistic reasons.^[1]

Medea was modelled on Keomi Gray, a gypsy woman that Sandys had met in Norwich and taken back to London to sit for many of his paintings.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Medea by Anthony Frederick Sandys at VictorianArtinBritain.co.uk.
2. ^ Sandys' Love Life in Frederick Sandys & the Pre-Raphaelites at the Norfolk Museums and Archaeology service.