PROVO, UTAH.- The prosperity of the Victorian era (1837-1901)
transformed the British art world from a small group of artists
who painted for the nobility into a robust community of artists
who were free to create paintings that depicted powerful stories
from ancient history and contemporary life with a richness of
color and wealth of detail that captured the admiration of the
age. Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H.
Schaeffer, a new exhibition at the Brigham Young University
Museum of Art on view from Feb. 15 through Aug. 16, 2008, will
give visitors the rare opportunity to view some of the most
beautiful and well-crafted works of this period from the private
collection of Australian businessman and entrepreneur John H.
Schaeffer. The exhibition will consist of paintings, sculpture
and works on paper by the luminaries of Victorian art including,
William Holman Hunt, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, John William Waterhouse and George Frederic Watts.
Many of these p