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the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin also penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.
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William Henry Hunt
...as true as that of any English artist. He was, says John Ruskin, all in all, the finest ever painter of still life....
William Holman Hunt
...These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself...
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
...and assiduous craftsmanship. The English art critic John Ruskin examined his work at length under a magnifying glass,...
Samuel Prout
...George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. John Ruskin, whose work often emulated Prout's, wrote in 1844,...
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
There is no wealth but life.
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John Ruskin1819, Feb 81829
 
18891900, Jan 20

Marianne Ehrenstrom1773, Dec 91790
 
18311867, Jan 4
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William Dunlap1766, Feb 191783
 
18341839, Sep 28
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Johannes Rienksz Jelgerhuis17701785
 
18361836
 a 19th-century painter and actor from the Northern Netherlands. He was also known for interiors a...
Hendrik Voogd1768, Jul 101788
 
18391839, Sep 4
 a Dutch painter and printmaker, who was active in Italy. Voogd's works from his first Roman years...
Jose Aparicio1773, Dec 161790
 
18391838, May 10
 a Spanish painter of the Neoclassic period. Born in Alicante and died in Madrid. His early traini...
Karl Friedrich Schinkel1781, Mar 131805
 
18391841, Oct 9
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Sir George Back1796, Nov 61808
 
18391878, Jun 23
 a British naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic, naturalist and artist. As a boy, he wen...
Giovanni Paolo Panini1691, Jun 171710
 
1841765, Oct 21
 a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view pa...
Jacob Maentel1763, Jun 151797
 
18401863, Apr, 28
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William Kneass1781, Sep 251812
 
18401840, Aug 27
 the second Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1824 until his death in 1840. Kneass is ...
Johann Adam Ackermann17801800
 
184091853, Mar 27
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Benjamin Trottunknown1791
 
18411843
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Washington Allston1779, Nov 51801
 
18411843, Jul 9
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Augustus Wall Callcott1779, Feb 201799
 
18431844, Nov 2
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18441844, Feb 25
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Henry Sargent1770, Nov 251793
 
18451845, Feb 21
  American painter and military man, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 1793 Sargent went t...
Henry Inman1801, Oct 201821
 
18451846, Jan 17
 an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter. He was the first vice president of the Nation...
John Vanderlyn1775, Oct 181791
 
18471852, Sep 23
 an American neoclassicist painter. In 1802 he painted two views of Niagara Falls, which were engr...
Rembrandt Peale1778, Feb 221791
 
18491860, Oct 3
 an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed fo...
George Chinnery1774, Jan 51796
 
18491852, May 30
 Born in London, studied at the Royal Academy Schools. Moved to Ireland in 1796, where he establis...
Leo von Klenze1784, Feb 291808
 
18491864, Jan 26
 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ...
Antonin Moine1796, Jun 301830
 
 
18491849, Mar 18
 a French romantic sculptor in the first half of the 19th century. He began his career as a landsc...
Vicente Lopez y Portana1772, Sep 191794
 
18501850, Jul 22
 a Spanish painter, considered one of the best portrait painters of his time. Vicente López was a...
Jules Robert Auguste17891810
 
18501850, Apr 15
 a French painter associated with Romanticism and classicism. His travels in Greece, Egypt, and Mo...
Abdallah Khanunknown1810
 
1850unknown
 a Persian painter and architect, active between 1810 and 1850 in Tehran. He received his apprenti...
T.H. Matteson1813, May 91841
 
 
18501884, Feb 2
 T.H. is for Tompkins Harrison, his first and middle names. Born in Peterboro, NY. In 1841 he move...
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek17781793
 
18511851
 a Dutch painter and draughtsman. Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek initially trained under Thomas Gaal, ...
John James Audubon1785, Apr 261803
 
18511851, Jan 27
 an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his extensive studies docu...
August Ahlborn1796, Oct 111823
 
18521857, Aug 24
 a German landscape painter. His paintings are mainly of Italian, North German, and Tyrolean lands...
Heinrich Gotthold Arnold17851800
 
18541854
 a German artist. Arnold was born in 1785 at Lamütz, near Radeberg in Saxony. He was a pupil of S...
Jean-Baptiste Isabey1767, Apr 111786
 
18551855, Apr 18
 a French painter born at Nancy. Employed at Versailles on portraits of the dukes of Angoulême an...
William James Blacklock1816, Mar 31843
 
 
18551858, Mar 12
 an English landscape painter, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Bor...
Joseph Bonomi the Younger1796, Oct 91824
 
18561878, mar 3
 an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator. From 1824 to 1826, he was a member ...
Hannah Cohoon1788, Feb 11844
 
 
18561864, Jan 7
 an American painter born in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Cohoon began creating her drawings and a...
William Ranney1813, May 91838
 
 
18571857, Nov 18
 a 19th-century American painter, known for his depictions of Western life, sporting scenery, hist...
Albrecht Adam1786, Apr 161809
 
18581862, Aug 28
 a German painter of battles and horses. Brother of Heinrich Adam. He worked until a great age, re...
Charles Hamilton Smith1776, Dec 261787
 
18591859, Sep 21
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Matthew Cotes Wyatt17771805
 
18591862, Jan 3
 a painter and sculptor and a member of the Wyatt family, who were well known in the Victorian era...
Karl Altmann18021850
 
 
18591861, Jan 11
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Taras Shevchenko1814, Mar 91822
 
18611861, Mar 10
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Karl Agricola17791800
 
18621862
 a German artist, noted for his portrait miniatures. He became known for his mythological pictures...
Hermann Goldschmidt1802, Jun 171820
 
18621866, Apr 26
 a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France. He started out as a ...
Ernst Gebauer1782, May 231797
 
18651865, Jul 7
 a German painter. Very little information is available about his life. He was born in Lietzen and...
James Augustus Suydam18191850
 
 
18651865
 an architect, lawyer, and artist; as an artist was considered one of the premier Luminism painter...
Jacob Abels18031826
 
18661866
 a Dutch painter. Born in Amsterdam. He was especially noted for his paintings of moonlit landscap...
Ferdinand von Arnim1814, Sep 151839
 
 
18661866, Mar 23
 a German architect and watercolour-painter. He became a member of the Berlin Architects' Associat...
Heinrich Burkel18021824
 
18671869
 a German genre and landscape painter. He was designed for trade, but devoted every spare minute t...
Jean-Frederic Waldeck1766, Mar 16?1790
 
18691875, Apr 30
 a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. Waldeck is remembered primarily for the...
Thomas Sully17831801
 
18691872
 an American portrait painter, who was born in Britain but lived most of his life in Philadelphia....
Jakob Alt1789, Sep 271810
 
18691872, Sep 30
 a German painter and lithographer. He became noted as a landscape painter and made various journe...
Antoine-Louis Barye1796, Sep 241810
 
18691875, Jun 25
 an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ...
Max Emanuel Ainmiller1807, Feb 141828
 
18691870, Dec 9
 a German artist and glass painter. The earliest specimens of Ainmiller's work are to be found in ...
John Gadsby Chapman1808, Dec 31830
 
 
18691889, Nov 28
 an American artist famous for Baptism of Pocahontas, which was commissioned by the United States ...
Moritz Calisch18191834
 
 
18691870
 a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. In 1834 he won 150 guilders from the Drawin...
Andreas Achenbach1815, Sep 291835
 
 
18691910, Apr 1
 a German landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In his early work...
Stephen C. Massettunknown1840
 
 
1869unknown
 San Francisco's first entertainer, Stephen C. Massett, was the true Bohemian type. He was an arti...
Eduard Gaertner1801, Jun 21819
 
18701877, Feb 22
 a German painter who specialized in depictions of urban architecture. In 1821, he accepted a posi...
George Catlin1796, Jul 261830
 
 
18721872, Dec 23
 an American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the...
Honore Daumier1808, Feb 261822
 
18731879, Feb 10
 a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on so...
Tobias Andreae18231853
 
 
18731873
 a German landscape painter. born at Frankfort, studied under J. Becker, and then went to Munich, ...
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux1827, May 111854
 
 
18731875, Oct 12
 a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III. Carpeaux entered the Ã...
Marie Adrien Persac18231856
 
 
18731873
 a French-born painter, photographer, surveyor, lithographer and inventor, Marie Adrien Persac was...
Edward Blore1787, Sep 131811
 
18741879, Sep 4
 a 19th-century British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. In 1826, he w...
Peter F. Rothermel1817, Jul 81844
 
 
18771895, Aug 15
 an American painter. He had a common-school education, and studied land surveying. At age 20, he ...
William F. Woodington1806, Feb 101825
 
18791893, Dec 24
 a notable English painter and sculptor of the 19th century. He exhibited at the Royal Academy fro...
Francis Alexander1800, Feb 31833
 
 
18791880, Mar 27
 an American portrait-painter. One of Alexander's best portraits is that of Mrs. Fletcher Webster,...
Franz Adam1815, May 41840
 
 
18791886, Sep 30
 a German painter, chiefly of military subjects, born and active for much of his life in Italy. Fr...
Joseph Matthaus Aigner1818, Jan 181840
 
 
18791886, Feb 19
 an Austrian portrait painter, who studied under Friedrich von Amerling and Carl Rahl. He painted ...
Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna1817, Mar 171840
 
 
18791878, Feb 26
 a French painter. Born in Orleans; died in Paris. Until 1845 his paintings were generally religio...
Nathaniel Currier1813, Mar 271833
 
 
18801888, Nov 20
 an American lithographer, who headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives. In 1835, Currier...
Alvan Clark1804, Mar 81830
 
 
18871887, Aug 19
 an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver (c.1830s-1850s...
Benno Adam1812, Jul 151830
 
18891892, Mar 8
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18891914
 an Austrian watercolor landscape painter, son of Jakob Alt and the younger brother of Rudolf von ...
Alexandre Cabanel1823, Sep 281844
 
18891889, Jan 23
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Ramon Marti Alsina18261848
 
18891894
 a Catalonian painter in the Realistic style. His first major exhibition was at the Exposición Ge...
Thomas Ball1819, Jun 31851
 
18931911, Dec 11
 an American sculptor, painter and musician. His work has had a marked influence on monumental art...
Edward Armitage1817, May 201840
 
18941896, May 24
 an English Victorian-era painter whose work focused on historical, classical and biblical subject...
Gustave Moreau1826, Apr 61852
 
18951898, Apr 18
 a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological ...
Albert Bierstadt1830, Jan 71855
 
18951902, Feb 18
 a German-born American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American Wes...
Wilhelm Amberg1822, Feb 251840
 
18991899, Sep 10
 a German genre painter. He was educated by the painters Carl Joseph Begas in Berlin and Léon Cog...
William Bartram1739, Apr 201773
 
1901823, Jul 22
 an American naturalist. He was born in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a boy, he acco...
Benjamin Champney1817, Nov 201848
 
19001907, Dec 11
 a painter whose name has become synonymous with White Mountain art of the 19th century. He began ...
William Powell Frith1819, Jan 191838
 
19021909, Nov 9
  an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the V...
George Frederic Watts1817, Feb 231830
 
19041904, Jul 1
 English Victorian painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his life...
Rudolf von Alt1812, Aug 281833
 
19051905, Mar 12
 an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Son of the lithographer Jakob Alt and the brothe...
Oswald Achenbach1827, Feb 21843
 
19051905, Feb 1
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William Holman Hunt1827, Apr 21847
 
19051910, Sep 7
 an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were ...
Ruth Henshaw Bascom1772, Dec 151791
 
1921848, Feb 16
 an American folk artist. Bascom made portraits of friends and relatives when she lived with her h...
Heinrich Adam17871811
 
1941862, Feb 15
 a German painter. He studied painting in Augsburg and Munich, and distinguished himself as a pain...
Hermann Anschutz1802, Oct 121820
 
1961880, Aug 30
 a German painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He is associated with...
Eugen Adam1817, Jan 221840
 
 
1961880, Jun 6
 a German painter. He specialised on animal, genre, landscape and battle paintings. He had his ate...
Friedrich von Amerling1803, Apr 141828
 
1971887, Jan 14
 an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the court of Franz Josef. Amerling created over 1000 work...
John William Casilear1811, Jun 251830
 
 
1971893, Aug 17
 an American landscape artist belonging to the Hudson River School. Casilear was born in New York ...
George Whiting Flagg1816, Jun 261830
 
 
1981898, Jan 5
 an American painter of historical scenes and genre pictures. He was the brother of the artist Jar...
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