Was John Ruskin a promoter or detractor? How great was his influence on the style, practice, and success?
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Were Pre-Raphaelite landscape paintings just a brief and unimportant, passing phase, or did they have significant influence?
After 1870, he drifted from the Pre-Raphaelite, painting more seascapes, but still some wonderful coastal scenes.
From his first painting of the Glacier of Rosenlaui in 1856, Brett made pure landscapes in Pre-Raphaelite style – stunning in their detail.
A brief survey of landscapes by Ford Madox Brown, Thomas Seddon, William Dyce, and others in the late 1850s.
The pursuit of truth was not easy, and posed its own problems, which altered the look of paintings.
What was Pre-Raphaelite landscape painting? A throwback to Masaccio, beyond Turner, or Ruskinism?
Into the 20th century, and he was busy teaching at Summer Schools in Europe, and trying to come to terms with art of the future.
His golden age, when each summer the family moved up to their house at Shinnecock, where he taught, and painted like never before.
After 1900, New York City became a more dominant theme in the works of major East Coast artists.
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