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The artistic career of Frederick Sandys may not have been lucrative, but it was certainly prolific - as this complete catalogue demonstrates. For the very first time every known piece of work undertaken by the artist is included in this definitive volume. The catalogue entries begin with Sandys' immature efforts and competition entries from 1839, includes his days spent with the Rossetti brothers and the Pre-Rapaelite Brotherhood, and continues through to his final few works, shortly before his death in 1904. It includes untraced works about which the author has uncovered copious amounts of information. A concise, comprehensive biographical text outlines Sandys' life, not only correcting mistakes, but also introducing previously unknown, newly researched aspects of the artists life. The catalogue is divided into five chronological periods and lavishly illustrated with glorious colour plates and hundreds of black and white photographs. This truly is the definitive guide to the life and works of Frederick Sandys.

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Betty Elzea is a professional cataloguer and has been a museum curator all her working life. In 1974 she wrote the catalogue for a Sandys exhibition at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and has recently written an entry on the artist for the New Dictionary of National Biography. Betty Elzea's knowledge of the life and work of Frederick Sandys is unrivalled - a fact that was clearly recognised by the Norwich Castle Museum, when they asked her to be guest curator at their forthcoming Sandys exhibition in October 2001. She has worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Brighton Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Delaware Art Museum.

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