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In the 1910s, Victorian styles of art and literature fell dramatically out of fashion in Britain, and by 1915 the word "Victorian" had become a derogatory term. [74] Many people blamed the outbreak of the First World War , which devastated Britain and Europe, on the legacy of the Victorian age, and arts and literature associated with the period ...
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction. However, many elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture did ...
Harold Gilman (1876–1919) – English artist and founder-member of the Camden Town Group; Gwen John (1876–1939) – Welsh artist; Horace Tuck (1876–1951) – Norfolk artist of oil and watercolour landscapes; Florence Mabel Hollams (1877–1963) – painter of dogs and horses; Laura Knight (1877–1970) – British artist
Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail.
William Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in the then West Riding of Yorkshire on 9 January 1819. He had originally intended to be an auctioneer. [5] His mother was Jane Frith, née Powell (1779–1851).
The Williams family of painters, also known as the Barnes School, is a family of prominent 19th-century Victorian landscape artists known for their paintings of the British countryside, coasts and mountains. They are represented by the artist Edward Williams (1781–1855), his six sons, and several grandchildren. Edward Williams
John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes. [1] [2] He was called a "remarkable and imaginative painter" by the critic and historian Christopher Wood in Victorian Painting (1999).
Sarah Biffin was born on 25 October 1784 in East Quantoxhead, Somerset [1] to her father Henry Biffin, a shoemaker, and his wife Sarah.She was born with no arms and undeveloped legs – a result of the congenital condition phocomelia, [2] and would grow to a height of 37 inches.