Many of Victorian painting's most
popular themes and subjects are illustrated in this book.
Among the twenty seven colour plates are two of Tissot's
observant views of contemporary London life together with
magnificent recontructions of the ancient world by Poynter,
Alma Tadema, Collier, Armitage and Godward: Watts and Albert
Moore bring their own interpretation to classical themes.
Pre-Raphealite paintings include Holman Hunt's The Eve of
St Agnes and Rossetti's La Ghirlandata , while
The Wounded Cavalier by the otherwise little known
William Shakespeare Burton and The Burgesses of Calai
s by Henry Holiday suggest Pre-Raphaelitism's widespread
influence and the popularity of historical and literary
subject-matter in Victorian England.
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