Victorian painting

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Victorian painting

Christopher Wood

Weidenfeld & Nicolson , Bulfinch Press, 1999

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Originally published: Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1996

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Victorian era and its aftermath were the backdrop to one of the great flowerings of British art. Taking the story of British art from the era of Romanticism to the formal and aesthetic breakthrough of Post-Impressionism, this book offers a survey of the field.

Table of Contents

  • The 1840s - literary genre, and fairy painters
  • Richard Redgrave and Social Realism
  • W.P. Frith and Modern Life
  • the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1849-1853
  • D.G. Rossetti
  • W. Holman Hunt
  • J.E. Millais
  • Ford Madox Brown and Arthur Hughes
  • Pre-Raphaelite followers of the 1850s
  • Pre-Raphaelite landscape
  • the palace of Art - William Morris and E. Burne-Jones
  • J.W. Waterhouse and other late Pre-Raphaelites 1860-1890
  • Olympian dreamers - Lord Leighton and the classical revival
  • G.F. Watts
  • Sir L. Alma-Tadema
  • Sir E.J. Poynter
  • Albert Joseph Moore
  • The Last Romantics 1890-1914
  • high life and low life - painters of Victorian life 1870-1900
  • portrait painting
  • landscape and country life
  • sporting and animal painters
  • marine and coastal painters
  • military and battle painters
  • travellers and topographers
  • Impression and the New English Art Club
  • Artistic Colonies - the Newlyn School and Staithes Group
  • the road to modernism.

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