William Holman Hunt, Il Dolce far Niente, Oil on canvas, 101 x 81.2.

PROVO, UTAH.- The prosperity of the Victorian era (1837-1901) transformed the British art world from a small group of artists who painted for the nobility into a robust community of artists who were free to create paintings that depicted powerful stories from ancient history and contemporary life with a richness of color and wealth of detail that captured the admiration of the age.

“Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H. Schaeffer,” a new exhibition at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art on view from Feb. 15 through Aug. 16, 2008, will give visitors the rare opportunity to view some of the most beautiful and well-crafted works of this period from the private collection of Australian businessman and entrepreneur John H. Schaeffer. The exhibition will consist of paintings, sculpture and works on paper by the luminaries of Victorian art including, William Holman Hunt, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John William Waterhouse and George Frederic Watts. Many of these pieces have never been shown before in the United States .

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John William Waterhouse, Mariamne, Oil on canvas, 267 x 183.5