Elizabeth Eastlake
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Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake, born Elizabeth Rigby, was an English author, art critic and art historian who made regular contributions to the Quarterly Review. She is known for her writing and her signifi
Elizabeth Rigby, the future Lady Eastlake, photographed about 1847 by Hill & Adamson
Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, portrait sketch, 1831, Victoria & Albert Museum
SIR CHARLES EASTLAKE 1793 1865 Painter and First Director of the National Gallery lived here
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political
Elizabeth Eastlake
…of her previous Quarterly Review essays on these topics Modern Painters, in the Quarterly Review, vol. 98, 1856 – a long in-depth critical review of John Ruskin's aesthetic theory. She rejected his "fundamental false principle" that "the language of painting is invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself…
Ruskin in 1863
1843 portrait of John Ruskin by William Powell Frith, from the collection of Andrew Rhys Young, New York
The grave of John James Ruskin, father of John Ruskin, in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley, Croydon
Portrait of John Ruskin by James Northcote, 1822