Description
The range of artistic production in the Victorian age
included history painting; topographical landscapes of the Continent
and the Middle East; Landseer's royal portraits and heroic animal
pictures; Pre-Raphaelite painting with its combined naturalism and
symbolism; Leighton's classical mythologies; and Frith's popular
depictions of the leisured middle classes. Amid this great variety of
styles and emphasis, influential critics such as Ruskin dictated that
art should be morally uplifting, an orthodoxy challenged by Whistler,
Sickert, Steer and their fellows among the "London Impressionists".
Reviews
Takes readers into the realm of the Victorian era as reflected by the art it produced.
— Antique Monthly
Well-written in a lucid style, richly illustrated.
— Victorian Studies
Contributors
Julian Treuherz
Author
