Artist | Frederick Sandys |
---|---|
Year | 1868 |
Type | Oil on canvas |
Location | 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 whom Sandys had met in Norwich, England, and taken back to London to sit for many of his paintings.[2]