1st Edition
The Essence of Art Victorian Advice on the Practice of Painting
Edited By Craig Harrison
Copyright 1999
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 and 1900.
It is a fascinating collection of Victorian instruction on how and what to paint, linked to crucial advice about art, its meaning and its relation to contemporary life, given by practising artists, important and often popular in their time,... Read more
1. C.R. Leslie. 2. Mrs Jonathan Foster. 3. Philip Gilbert Hamerton. 4. Commission of Inquiry into the Royal Academy: 1863. 5. H.N. O’Neil. 6. E.J. Poynter. 7. G.F. Watts. 8. Frederic Leighton. 9. Edward Armitage. 10. Harry Quilter. 11. Hubert von Herkomer.
Biography
Craig Harrison
