Volume 1
Acknowledgements 8
Introduction 9
Initiais After Artists' Names 10
Exhibition and Gallery References 11
Bibliographical References 12
Abbreviations in Text 16
Dictionary 17
Volume 2
Victorian Painting — A Survey 10-104
Introduction 10
Golden era of art; prestige of Royal Academy; patronage; age of museums,
art exhibitions, art magazines, illustrators, engravings; a literary Society
Victorian Painting 1837-1901 14
No easy definition; continuation of nineteenth century romanticism
The 1840s 14
Late Turner; decoration of the Houses of Parliament; historical painting;
the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood
A Novel in a Rectangle — the Vogue for Literary Genre page
15 Narrative pictures; the 'golden, olden tyme'; influence of Scott
Fairy Paintings 16
Shakespeare's influence; Richard Dadd; fantasy in children's illustrated
books
Richard Redgrave and Social Realism 16
Father of modem life school; social evils and the impact of 'social realist'
paintings
William Powell Frith and Victorian 'Modern Life' 17
Frith's great masterpieces; his imitators; decline of the genre by 1880s;
a unique visual record of mid-Victorian life
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 19
Aims and initial success; oppostion of art establishment; support from
Ruskin; the tide turns; the group drifts apart
Pre-Raphaelite Associates — Ford Madox Brown and Arthur Hughes
23 Brown's social realism; Hughes's romanticism
Some Pre-Raphaelite Followers of the 1850s 26
Dyce, Wallis, Brett; narrative pictures; provincial followers
The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape 28
Influence of Ruskin; a completely new approach; the style falls from favour
The Tragic Pre-Raphaelite — Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 33
Creative genius; worshipper of female beauty; his work unique in English art
The Faithful Pre-Raphaelite — William Holman Hunt 1827-1910 33
Serious religious painter; his 'sermons in paint'
The Fickle Pre-Raphaelite — John Everett Millais 1829-1896 34
Joins art establishment; change in style; later career; a brilliant Victorian painter
Pre-Raphaelitism and the Aesthetic Movement 36
Artistic and intellectual ferment of the 1860s; Pre-Raphaelitism
an element in Aesthetic Movement; Burne-Jones and inspiration of
Morte d'Arthur; Leighton and the Classical Movement; progressive
versus traditional art
The Palace of Art — William Morris 37
Medievalism; Oxford murals; Morris's influence on English taste; a polymath
Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 38
Missionary fervour; Italian influence; decorative work for Morris;
Grosvenor Gallery; 'a genius in our midst'; under attack; fame at last; his later work
Some Pre-Raphaelite Followers 1860-1890 42
Sandys; Simeon Solomon; Atkinson Grimshaw; influence of
Burne-Jones on later Pre-Raphaelites
John William Waterhouse 1849-1917 45
Fusion of classicism and Pre-Raphaelitism, romance and realism;
a respected later Pre-Raphaelite
The Last Romantics 1890-1920 46
Pre-Raphaelitism continues; painter-illustrators; painter-craftsmen
Olympian Dreamers — the Classical Movement 48
Reaction to Pre-Raphaelitism; inspiration of Greece and Rome; return of the nude
Lord Leighton 1830-1896 50
Prince of the art world; development of a classical style;
the house of a Victorian aesthete
George Frederic Watts 1817-1904 52
The arch-romantic; portraits; classical and allegorical works; late success
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912 56
Artist-antiquarian; anecdotal art; Roman spectaculars; prodigious output;
influence on cinema
Sir Edward John Poynter 1836-1919 58
Blend of historie and heroic; refusai to change with the times; his decorative style
Albert Joseph Moore 1841-1893 and the Aesthetic Parnassus 62
Importance of Moore; relationship with Whistler; preoccupation with colour;
other classical-aesthetic painters
Lesser Olympians 1870-1920 65
Classicism in full swing; Perugini, Prinsep, W.B. Richmond, S.J. Solomon,
Collier, Riviere; influence of painting on cinema; decline of classicism
High Life and Low Life — Socialist Realist Painting in the 1870s and 1880s 68
Exposure of social evils; Fildes, Herkomer and Holl; Tissot and high life
Portrait Painting page 72
Epoch of great portrait painting; royal patronage; Pre-Raphaelite portraitists;
Whistler; Watts's Hall of Fame; later portrait painters
Landscape Painting 76
Turner, Martin, Constable; sentimental rusticity; Leader, Linnell, Birket Foster;
provincial artists; foreign influences
Country Life 80
Idealised view; farmwork; Thomas Sidney Cooper; harvest;
the Coles and Clausen; the gloomy side — Herkomer and Holl;
the Cranbrook Colony and village life; the cottage
Still-life, Flowers and Gardens 88
Popular subjects; Bird's-nest Hunt; two Stannard families;
Lance and Duffield
Sporting and Animal Painting 90
A golden age; influence of the eighteenth century; Ferneley,
Grant and the Herrings; royal patronage; Landseer; painters of the sporting gentry
Marine and Coastal Painting 92
Rich period for naval and marine painting; debt to Turner; Stanfield,
Cooke, Chambers, Beechey and Schetky; local painters; coastal scenes
Military and Battle Painting 96
Napoleonic Wars; the Crimean Campaign; the Indian Mutiny;
Volunteer Parades; colonial wars
Travellers and Topographers 98
Growth of travel; European subjects; the Middle and Far East; Roberts,
Lewis, Holman Hunt, Lear and Chinnery
Impressionism and the Newlyn School 102
A wider outlook; French influences and English Impressionism;
artists' colonies; plein-air painting; the Newlyn School
Black and White Plates 105-471
Details of Colour Plates/Plates in Victorian Painting
A Survey 472-475
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