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 Frederick Warne & Co, after Herbert Rose Barraud
photogravure, (May-June 1885)
NPG x36243
by Herbert Rose Barraud
albumen cabinet card, May-June 1885
NPG x1513
by Herbert Rose Barraud
albumen cabinet card, May-June 1885
NPG x38841
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, May-June 1885, published 1888
NPG Ax5407
published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd, after Herbert Rose Barraud
postcard print, 1900s (May-June 1885)
NPG x26520
Various writers, historians and philanthropists
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
NPG Ax139908
Various clergymen, philanthropists, politicians and others
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
NPG Ax139917
Various actresses, singers and others
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
NPG Ax139926
by John McClelland, or by Percy Lund & Co
half-plate glass negative, Summer 1891
NPG x12189
Joan Severn (née Agnew); Arthur Severn; John Ruskin
by John McClelland, or by Percy Lund & Co
bromide print, Summer 1891
NPG x39718
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, Summer 1892
NPG x12175
John Ruskin; Joan Severn (née Agnew)
by John McClelland
bromide print, Summer 1892
NPG x39720
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, circa 1893
NPG x12176
John Ruskin; Joan Severn (née Agnew)
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, circa 1893
NPG x12177
John Ruskin; Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Bt
by Sarah Angelina Acland, published by George Allen
photogravure, 1 August 1893
NPG x13297
by Sarah Angelina Acland
platinum print, 1 August 1893
NPG x5588
after Charles Philip McCarthy
photogravure postcard print, (May 1894)
NPG x5101
by Frederick Hollyer, published by Walter L. Colls
photogravure, September 1894
NPG x138999
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 14 February 1895
NPG x12174
John Ruskin; Joan Severn (née Agnew); Peter Baxter and other members of Ruskin's household
by John McClelland
half-plate glass negative, 14 February 1895
NPG x12188
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