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John Ruskin
English Romantic Writer and Painter, 1819-1900
English art critic. Born into a wealthy family, Ruskin was largely educated at home. He was a gifted painter, but the best of his talent went into his writing. His multivolume Modern Painters (1843 C 60), planned as a defense of painter J.M.W. Turner, expanded to become a general survey of art. In Turner he saw "truth to nature" in landscape painting, and he went on to find the same truthfulness in Gothic architecture. His other writings include The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and The Stones of Venice (1851 C 53). He was also a defender of the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1869 he was elected Oxford's first Slade professor of fine art; he resigned in 1879 after James McNeill Whistler won a libel suit against him.
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Painting ID:: 22812
Cascade de la Folie Chamonix (mk22)
1849
India ink and watercolor 37.5 x 45.72 cm
Birmingham Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Painting ID:: 27064
Self-Portrait in a Blue Neckcloth
mk52
1873
Watercolour on paper
35.3x25.3cm
Pierpont Morgan Library,New York
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Painting ID:: 28023
Self-Portrait
1873
Watercolour 35.3 x 25.3 cm (13 7/8 x 10 in) Pierpont Morgan Library,New York (mk63)
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Painting ID:: 68945
the pass of faido on the st gotthard
1845
brown ink and watercolour with gouache on brown paper 24.8x34.5cm
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John Ruskin
English Romantic Writer and Painter, 1819-1900
English art critic. Born into a wealthy family, Ruskin was largely educated at home. He was a gifted painter, but the best of his talent went into his writing. His multivolume Modern Painters (1843 C 60), planned as a defense of painter J.M.W. Turner, expanded to become a general survey of art. In Turner he saw "truth to nature" in landscape painting, and he went on to find the same truthfulness in Gothic architecture. His other writings include The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and The Stones of Venice (1851 C 53). He was also a defender of the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1869 he was elected Oxford's first Slade professor of fine art; he resigned in 1879 after James McNeill Whistler won a libel suit against him.
. Related Artists to John Ruskin: | Aristide Maillol | Camille Pissarro | Willem Romeijn | William Dobson | Woolner, Thomas |
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