John Ruskin
(1819-1900), Writer, artist and social reformerLater Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter associated with 80 portraits
One of the great thinkers and critics of the Victorian period, whose writings profoundly influenced attitudes to art, architecture and aesthetics; published 'Modern Painters', 1843-60, 'Seven Lamps of Architecture', 1849, and 'Stones of Venice' 1851-3; later turned to social and political problems, advocating socialistic reforms; keenly interested in science and an accomplished watercolourist. His unfinished autobiography, Praeterita is a highly selective account, and a radically different approach to autobiography, intended as an 'informal assemblage of memories'.
by John McClelland
cabinet card, 14 February 1895
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John Ruskin, Joan Severn (née Agnew), Peter Baxter and other members of Ruskin's household
by John McClelland
modern bromide print, 14 February 1895
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by John McClelland
bromide print, 14 February 1895
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by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, July 1897
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after John McClelland
postcard print, 17 July 1897
NPG x38850
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 25 July 1898
NPG x12179
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 25 July 1898
NPG x12180
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 25 July 1898
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by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 25 July 1898
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by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 25 July 1898
NPG x12183
John Ruskin; Joan Severn (née Agnew)
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 25 July 1898
NPG x12184
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 25 July 1898
NPG x12185
by Francis Holl, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, 1857
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John Ruskin (Men of the Day, No. 40.')
by Adriano Cecioni
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 17 February 1872
NPG D43523
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, published by Fine Art Society Ltd
mezzotint and etching, published 21 July 1880 (1879)
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by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, published by Fine Art Society Ltd
mezzotint and etching, published 21 July 1880 (1879)
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published by The Graphic, after Theodore Blake Wirgman
lithograph printed in black and grey, published 3 April 1886 (circa 1886)
NPG D33438
by Robert Bryden, after Elliott & Fry
woodcut, published 1901 (1882)
NPG D33441
Key to Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
after Henry Jamyn Brooks
photograph, 1919 or after
NPG D42236
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, May-June 1885, published 1888
NPG x135384
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