As the son of a cheese merchant, Robert Robert Anning Bell was not exactly predestined to become an artist. He was born in London in 1862. It was probably his uncle, the architect Samuel Knight, who introduced him to art. He worked in his office at a young age and studied at the progressive University College School and the renowned Royal Academy. He shared his interest in new trends such as Symbolism and Art Nouveau with the sculptor George Frampton, with whom he also ran a studio. After he came into contact with the avant-garde of his time in Paris, he became an important representative of the Arts and Crafts movement in England.
One of his first highly regarded works was created in collaboration with Frampton: a high altar consisting of paintings and sculptures, which was exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and is now in the Church of St. Clare in Liverpool. This work already reveals Bell's interest in medieval and Renaissance art. In cooperation with glass workshops, brightly coloured stained glass windows were created, which on the one hand refer to the old models, but on the other hand also combine modern elements. His works carry a secret within them, they exude a great magic and show the mastery and craftsmanship of a great artist and designer. At the height of his career, Robert Anning Bell was commissioned to execute the central mosaic for the tympanum of the main portal of Westminster Cathedral, based on sketches by the late master builder John Francis Bentley. This work is based on the mosaics of Byzantium, yet is very modern in its stylisation and composition. It was completed in 1916 and fits wonderfully into the overall composition of this neo-Byzantine church. In the 1920s he also created several mosaics for Westminster Palace.
Bell's paintings are atmospherically dense, enigmatic and radiate an extraordinary aesthetic. One might think, for example, of an Arcadian bathing scene with nymph-like beauties or of red-haired young women whom he portrayed very vividly, yet enraptured. When we look at his painting "Mary with Elisabeth", the great masters of the early Renaissance come to mind. He has undoubtedly orientated himself by them, without flatly imitating them. Book illustrations occupy a special place in his oeuvre. These include a wonderful gouache of a flight of elves, but also masterpieces in black and white in the manner of Art Nouveau. Consider, for example, the atmospheric illustrations to the dramas of William Shakespeare: King Lear, Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet. Robert Anning Bell portrayed himself in front of one of his colourful stained glass windows; he died in 1933. Seen from today, his works, most of which were created in the 20th century, seem to be out of time. But this is precisely what makes them so magical.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055269).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Sleep And Poetry by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "And Whilst I Sing Euphelia")
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.jpg "Isabella, Measure for Measure by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052599).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Cupid and my Campaspe play")
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.jpg "The Oracle: Three Young Women in a Park, 1897 by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051484).jpg "See Where My Love A-Maying Goes, with Sweet Dame Flora Sporting by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Ariadne by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055279).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Odes by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Queen Hippolyta")
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.jpg "How Sweet the Answer Echo Makes by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055273).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Lamia by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051256).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Lamia by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051251).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Lines on the Mermaid Tavern by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Book-plate of Theodule, Count of Grammont by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Now Fades the Glimmering Landscape on the Night, And All the Air a Solemn Stillness Holds by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059550).jpg "The Queen of Paphos, Erycine, in heart did rose-cheeked Adon love by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Helena, All")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052490).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Isabella or The Pot of Basil by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055272).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Isabella or The Pot of Basil by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051253).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "There is a Meadow by the River")
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.jpg "And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, in praise of ladies dead and lovely knights by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051257).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Lamia by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129155).jpg "In the Doorway by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1057328).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Sleep And Beauty by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055271).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Isabella or The Pot of Basil by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Imogen, Cymbeline by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059546).jpg "Full fathom five thy father lies by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052577).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Melancholy by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055274).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Endymion by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051254).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: To Autumn by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Portrait of F. W. Pomeroy, 1924 by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1057335).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Endymion by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Perdita, A Winter")
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.jpg "To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052587).jpg "Sign no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052601).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Ode To Psyche by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055275).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Endymion by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052602).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: The Eve of St Agnes by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "And thou two sweeter eyes, shalt see, than those which by Peneus streams, did once thy heart surprise by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Miranda, The Tempest by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1112930).jpg "Go, Lovely Rose!, from Palgrave")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1054681).jpg "Who is Silvia? What is she, that all our swains commend her? by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055277).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Endymion by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1057334).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Endymion by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059549).jpg "Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty, youth")
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.jpg "Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051252).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Fancy by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1511030).jpg "Shelley: Prometheus Unbound by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Christ Enthroned with Saints Peter, Joseph, Edward and the Virgin Mary, 1914 by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Come, and Trip It as You Go, On the Light Fantastic Toe by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "The Golden Goose from Grimms Household Tales by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1054680).jpg "You")
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.jpg "Beatrice, from Shakespeare")
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.jpg "Love")
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.jpg "On The Extinction Of The Venetian Republic by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Sleep On, and Dream of Heaven Awhile by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Where the Rude Axe, with Heaved Stroke, Was Never Heard the Nymphs to Daunt by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052489).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: The Eve of St Agnes by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Diaphenia by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Desdemona, from Shakespeare")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059551).jpg "Diaphenia like the daffadowndilly, white as the sun, fair as the lily by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Sleep, Silence")
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.jpg "Ophelia, Hamlet by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Over hill, over dale, thorough bush, thorough brier, over park, overpale, thorough flood, thorough fire by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052493).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059547).jpg "Sing lullaby, my little boy, sing lullaby, mine only joy by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055276).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Endymion by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Juliet, Romeo and Juliet by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055278).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Cordelia, King Lear by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "The Crystal Ball by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Constance, King John by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Portia, from Shakespeare")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1052576).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Fragment of an Ode to Maia by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106960).jpg "Design for endpapers, c.1895 by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1480980).jpg "Shelley: Ode To The West Wind by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Illustration for The Altar Book by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Illustration for The Altar Book by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "The Lost Love by William Wordsworth by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "The Adoration of the Magi by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Street Corner in Cairo by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1057329).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1057332).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Isabella or The Pot of Basil by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Cupid and my Campaspe play")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1055268).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1057331).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: The Eve of St Agnes by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Index to Illustrations by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1050802).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats (lithograph) by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "See where my Love A-Maying Goes / With Sweet Dame Flora Playing by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Melancholy by John Fletcher by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "The Pool, 1906, 1918 by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1500355).jpg "Shelley: Adonais by Robert Anning Bell")
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.jpg "Crown Ye God Bacchus with a Coronal, and Hymen Also Crown with Wreaths of Vine by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1051258).jpg "Illustration for Poems by John Keats: Endymion by Robert Anning Bell")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1059529).jpg "Sleep, angry beauty by Robert Anning Bell")
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