page_title: Frederick Sandys
section_title: Paintings
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Sandys / Works / Paintings
context_page_description: Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, usually known as Frederick Sandys, was a British painter, illustrator and draughtsman, associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He was also associated with the Norwich School of painters.
context_section_description: Early in the 1860s he began to exhibit the paintings which set the seal upon his fame. The best known of these are Vivien (1863), Morgan le Fay (1864), Cassandra and Medea (1868).
  Sandys never became a popular painter. He painted little, and the dominant influence upon his art was the influence exercised by lofty conceptions of tragic power. There was in it a sombre intensity and an almost stern beauty which lifted it far above the ideals of the crowd. The Scandinavian Sagas and Le Morte d'Arthur gave him subjects after his own heart, and The Valkyrie and Morgan le Fay represent some of his best work.
caption: Mary Magdalene, c. 1859, Delaware Art Museum
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