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Product Description: Recent advances in scientific analysis are used to shed light on the working practices of artists of all periods. Revealed in this book are 30 intriguing case histories, including those of many notable British artists, all the results of study by conservators and scientists at the Tate Gallery...read more

Product Description: The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Milliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua Reynolds with the Scottish Allan Ramsay...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, centering on D.G. Rossetti, W.H. Hunt and Sir J.E. Millais, attempted to set itself apart from the Victorian world in which this fraternity lived and painted. So well did it succeed that scholars have failed to see how embedded Victorian attitudes actually are beneath the complicated iconography employed by the artists...read more

Discusses the role of art in Victorian society, looks at the most popular artists of the period, and explains how they were educated, where they exhibited, and how they sold their work

Analyzes the Preraphaelites aims, techniques, symbolism, and their effects on other schools of art

Product Description: [From front jacket flap] The extraordinary richness and variety of English painting during the reign of Queen Victoria is only now, after years of neglect, beginning to be appreciated. If the period produced few British artists of world stature, this was more than balanced by the cumulative effect of sheer quantity and diversity of talent...read more

Describes the new extension to the Tate Gallery designed to hold Turner's gift to the nation, and shows the paintings, watercolors, pastels, and etchings in the collection

Product Description: Book by Sunderland, John

Product Description: From Preface: In connection with the Exhibition of British Art at Burlington House in january of this year I delivered two lectures to the members of the National Art Collections Fund which form the substance of the following pages. ....