Frederick Sandys met Rossetti, one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, in 1857. The painting Gentle Spring was exhibited at
the Royal Academy in 1865. It represents Proserpina who, in the Roman mythology, returned from the underworld every
spring.
Gentle Spring – Oil on Canvas by Frederick Sandys (Ashmolean
Museum – Oxford, UK)
The realistic plants and flowers were painted in the garden of
the poet and novelist George Meredith.
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