Following on from Joss’s post below about studio houses, here’s a random fact for you: Dante Gabriel Rossetti wasn’t just an artistic pioneer; he was also one of the first men in England to die in a bungalow.
This, admittedly, was because he was also one of the first people in England to live in a [...]

In honour of the BBC’s lavish new series, Desperate Romantics, which is based on the lives of the artists behind the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), this week’s Five to View focuses on studio houses.
The Pre-Raphaelite boys and their associates were often from privileged backgrounds, of course, so [...]