Theodor von Holst | The Bride, 1842
Born in London in 1810 to Latvian parents who had recently emigrated from Riga, Theodor Richard Edward von Holst (3 September 1810 - 14 February 1844) came to occupy a unique position in British art, providing the link between earlier Romantic artists and the Pre-Raphaelites.
After studying with Henry Fuseli at the Royal Academy, and encouraged by Thomas Lawrence, von Holst went on to produce illustrations to Goethe’s Faust, Fouquet’s Undine and Dante’s Inferno.
Working mainly in isolation, the artist only achieved recognition towards the end of his short career with his large prize-winning biblical composition The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter 1841 (now lost), and a series of female heads that included The Bride, his most popular painting.













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