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Wood, Christopher, 1941-2009.

Victorian painting : in oils and watercolours / Christopher Wood.

Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club, 1996.

207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

A scholarly survey of one of the most productive and exciting periods of English art is long overdue. Much has been written about painters in oil, yet considering the enormous interest in and development of watercolour painting, the very Englishness of that art form, and the fact that the two complementary forms cannot easily be understood in isolation, it is surprising no in-depth study of Victorian painting in oils and watercolours has been undertaken till now. In describing the various schools of thought and artistic movements, the influences, the personalities, the rivalry between 'giants' of the art world, between oil painters and watercolourists, and between the professional societies, Christopher Wood paints a rich and vivid picture not only of the development of art through the nineteenth century, but also of the life and conditions of the times so much reflected in many of the paintings.

Painting, Victorian -- Great Britain.

Painting, British -- 19th century.

Introduction -- 1. Victorian painting 1837-1901. The 1840s -- A novel in a rectangle: the vogue for literary genre -- Fairy paintings -- Richard Redgrave and social realism -- William Powell Frith and Victorian 'modern life' -- The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood -- The Pre-Raphaelite associates: Ford Madox Brown and Arthur Hughes -- Some Pre-Raphaelite followers of the 1850s -- The Pre-Raphaelite landscape -- The tragic Pre-Raphaelite: Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 -- The faithful Pre-Raphaelite: William Holman Hunt 1827-1910 -- The fickle Pre-Raphaelite: John Everett Millais 1829-1896 -- Pre-Raphaelitism and the aesthetic movement -- The palace of art: William Morris -- Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 -- Some Pre-Raphaelite followers 1860-1890 -- John William Waterhouse 1849-1917 -- The last romantics 1890-1920 -- Olympian dreamers: the classical movement -- Lord Leighton 1830-1896 -- George Frederic Watts 1817-1904.

Sir Lawence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912 -- Sir Edward John Poynter 1836-1919 -- Albert Joseph Moore 1841-1893 and the aesthetic Parnassus -- Lesser olympians 1870-1920 -- High life and low life: social realist painting in the 1870s and 1880s -- Portrait painting -- Landscape painting -- Country life -- Still-life, flowers and gardens -- Sporting and animal painting -- Marine and coastal painting -- Military and battle painting -- Travellers and topographers -- Impressionism and the Newlyn school. 2. Victorian Watercolour paintings. The watercolour societies -- Teachers and schools -- Technique -- The early Victorians -- The Pre-Raphaelites -- Pre-Raphaelite landscape -- The aesthetic movement -- Later Victorian watercolourists -- Gardens and flowers -- Lady artists -- Later figurative watercolourists -- Impressionism.

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