Artist of the Victorian era.

[souldriver]

Which artist's lived during the Victorian period, I'm trying to help the little one write about one for home work but i cant think of any.

thanks.

[paddywak]

Arts is not really my subjecy but three that come to mind are Sir John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and John William Waterhouse, as I said arts not really my thing so I can't really tell you any thing about them. I also suppose that as Victoria came to the throne in 1837 and the great Turner didn't die till 1851 he too could just qualify as Victorian

[jno]

in Britain the pre-Raphaelites are the best known

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Br otherhood

Turner and Constable also lived during the Victorian era.

If you want to include foreigners, the Impressionists.

[souldriver]

thank you for the help. SD

[Lil O'lady]

Might help the young'un to look at mvements in art rather than concentrate on a list of names. From a schoolchild's viewpoint, this means broadly examing the Pre-Raphaelites, the Impressionists, and society portrait painters such as Sargeant.
That way you can pick out a typical work of each genre and the child can easily describe their main differences in their own language.
But nothing beats seeing the real thing - depending on where you live, the art galleries of our major towns are a treasure trove of these paintings, and free to go in.

[paddywak]

As lil o.lady says their is nothing like seeing for your self, I remember going an a school trip to London (longer ago then I care to mention) and seeing Turners "Fighting Tameraire" in the National Gallery, and believe me when you see a painting like that you don't need to know much about art to know it is something special

[MaxKranfel]

Hi, there was a whole movement of artists founded during the Victorian era calling themselves the Pre- Raphaelites. Their idea was to get back to a more realistic portrayal of life and were inpired by the work of William Ruskin, a more rustic view of our world. Some of the main 'players' were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne Jones and Sir John Everett Millais. Although some of their work may be regarded as somewhat 'kitsch' now there is no doubting their talent and craftsmanship. Hope this helps.