Gentle Spring Frame:gold Jan van Kessel was a

Jan van Kessel was a versatile painter of still life in Antwerp

clear colours set off against a dark background: the foliage of the trees was once picked out with gold

inhabited by the receding forms of men and animals

symbol of Diana

Gentle Spring Frame:gold Jan van Kessel was aExhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865 accompanied in the catalogue by a sonnet by the artist's friend, Charles Algernon Swinburne. The figure was painted in the garden of the poet and novelist, George Meredith. She represents Proserpina returning from the land of the dead. Sandys joined Rossetti's circle in 1857 and lived with him in Cheyne Walk for most of 1866.