{"product_id":"collins-charles-allston-1828-1873-convent-thoughts-1851","title":"Collins, Charles Allston (1828-1873)  - Convent Thoughts 1851","description":"\u003cp\u003ePainting by Charles Allston Collins who married Charles Dickens' daughter Kate. Collins had previously fallen in love with Maria Francesca Rossetti, but she rejected him. He became increasingly ascetic and introspective, attitudes expressed in his best-known work, Convent Thoughts, which depicts a nun in a convent garden. Collins went on to exhibit many highly devotional images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image, in jpeg format, that is 600dpi and 4930 pixels wide by 6510 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Allston Collins (1828-1873)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a British painter, writer, and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollins was born in Hampstead, north London, the son of landscape and genre painter William Collins. His older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollins met John Everett Millais and became influenced by the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites, completing his painting Berengaria's Alarm in 1850. This depicted the wife of King Richard the Lionheart noticing her missing husband's girdle offered for sale by a peddlar. The flattened modelling, emphasis on pattern making, and imagery of embroidery were all characteristic features of Pre-Raphaelitism. Millais proposed that Collins should become a member of the Brotherhood, but Thomas Woolner and William Michael Rossetti objected, so he never became an official member.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollins fell in love with Maria Francesca Rossetti, but she rejected him. He became increasingly ascetic and introspective. These attitudes were expressed in Collins's best-known work, Convent Thoughts, which depicted a nun in a convent garden. Collins went on to exhibit many highly devotional images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1850s, however, he abandoned art to follow his brother into a writing career. His most successful literary works were humorous essays collected together under the title The Eye Witness (1860).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollins married Charles Dickens's daughter Kate in 1860, and later was engaged to illustrate Dickens's unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He completed the cover but was too ill to do the rest. He died from cancer in 1873 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50757260542282,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Collins_CharlesAllston_1828-1873_-ConventThoughts1851_main.jpg?v=1747051982","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/products\/collins-charles-allston-1828-1873-convent-thoughts-1851","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}