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
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
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel
John Ruskin
…the principal duty of the artist is "truth to nature". This meant rooting art in experience and close observation. From the 1850s, he championed the Pre-Raphaelites, who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. Unto This Last (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis…
William Holman Hunt, The Hireling Shepherd, 1851
Proserpine, 1874, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with Jane Morris as model
Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England depicting an emigrating couple, 1855
Christ in the House of His Parents, by John Everett Millais, 1850