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1	Victorian Fairy Painting more books like this by Jeremy Maas add to wishlist The first serious book on a Victorian cultural phenomenon. Includes paintings by Turner, Millais and others. 168 pages 130 illus. see all copies from $19.94! new only from $90.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Victorian Watercolours more books like this by Christopher Newall add to wishlist Watercolour was the preferred medium for many 19th-century artists. Lending itself to effects of rich colour and tone, as well as literal realism, watercolour painting encapsulated the principal qualities of Victorian taste. This book acts as an introduction to Victorian watercolours. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $18.73! \| first editions
3	Victorian Painting more books like this by Lionel Lambourne add to wishlist This is a comprehensive survey of one of the most fertile and varied eras in the history of painting. It embraces not just the United Kingdom but also the British-speaking countries linked to Britain by cultural ties of empire and emigration, such as the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Africa. Long regarded as a backwater of sentiment and ... see all copies from $57.50! new only from $184.75! \| first editions
4	Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Art more books like this by Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn add to wishlist This book is the first to explore the distinctive role of painting in the debates surrounding the notion of 'art for art's sake' and Aestheticism in Victorian England. In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, this artistic problem became a shared concern: if art is not created for the sake of preaching a moral lesson, ... see all copies from $43.50! new only from $48.13! \| SVS
5	Victorian painting more books like this by Christopher Wood add to wishlist In this guide to European art during the Victorian era, acclaimed art historian Christopher Wood details artistic movements and profiles several artists, including Burne-Jones, Rossetti, and Waterhouse. see all copies from $44.95! new only from $57.98!
6	The Victorians: British Painting, 1837-1901 more books like this by Malcolm Warner, Anne Helmreich, Charles Brock add to wishlist From the medieval tendencies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to the classicism of Frederick Leighton, Victorian painting is seen to have encompassed a broad range of subjects and styles. This elegant volume showcases the work of a great many Victorian painters, including J.M.W. Turner, John Everett Millais, and James Tissot. Publication to coincide with ... see all copies from $6.68! new only from $9.99! \| first editions
7	Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies more books like this by Helena Michie add to wishlist Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy, Michie discusses the codes and taboos which distance the reader from the female body, allowing 'safe' bodily parts - like hands - and 'safe' physical activities - like eating - to stand for other, unspeakable aspects of female physicality. She ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.75! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Victorian Painting more books like this by Julian Treuherz add to wishlist The personalities and careers of Victorian artists, and their social and intellectual context, are explored in this account, which aims to reveal how they blended foreign influences with the native British tradition. The range of artistic production in the Victorian age included history painting; topographical landscapes of the Continent and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	William Powell Frith: A Painter & His World more books like this by Christopher Wood add to wishlist William Powell Frith was one of the most popular and most successful figures of the Victorian art world yet, until now, there has been no biography about him. In "William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World" art historian Christopher Wood tells the remarkable, lively and colourful life of this reluctant artist. Born in the same year as Queen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
10	An Introduction to 'Victorian' Genre Painting: From Wilkie to Frith more books like this by Lionel Lambourne add to wishlist see all copies from $2.30! new only from $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
11	William Powell Frith: Painting in the Victorian Age more books like this by Mark Bills (Editor), Vivien Knight (Editor) add to wishlist William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of the wide spectrum of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd and are icons of their age. Frith enjoyed unprecedented popularity and success in his lifetime; on six separate occasions ... see all copies from $35.40! new only from $48.77! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Pursuit of Leisure: Victorian Depictions of Pastimes more books like this by Joanne Wright (Editor) add to wishlist Victorian genre painting remains a relativel y under-investigated field. This study brings to light the i ngenuity and sharpness of observation exhibited in these Vic torian ''leisure pictures'' which are well worth rediscovery. ' see all copies from $3.72! new only from $23.21!
13	Victorian artists more books like this by Quentin Bell add to wishlist see all copies from $7.05! first editions \| SVS
14	And When Did You Last See Your Father?: The Victorian Painter and British History more books like this by Roy C Strong add to wishlist see all copies from $2.20! new only from $2.55! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Every Picture Tells a Story: Images of Victorian Life more books like this by John Hadfield add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Dictionary of Victorian painters more books like this by Christopher Wood add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17	Magnificent Dreams: Burne-Jones and the Late Victorians more books like this by Frances Spalding add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Dictionary of British Art Vol. 4, Victorian Painters 1-Text more books like this by Christopher Wood add to wishlist The first edition of "The Dictionary of Victorian Painters" was published in 1971 and contained details of 1,800 artists together with 250 illustrations. It became an accepted textbook on Victorian artists and was reprinted four times until a second, revised and much enlarged edition with 11,000 entries and 550 illustrations appeared in 1978. "The ... see all copies from $41.70! new only from $60.27! \| first editions
19	Children more books like this by Adrian Vincent add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20 view cover	History's Beauties: Women in the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 more books like this by Lara Perry add to wishlist The 'beauties' - women of note - who were welcomed to the National Portrait Gallery's early collection were those whose lives and portraits were recognized as significant to the 'civil, ecclesiastical and literary history of the nation'. This brief was interpreted to include figures as diverse as the devout Lady Margaret Beaufort, and the ... see all copies from $65.57! new only from $98.84!
21	Rural life more books like this by Adrian Vincent add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions
22 view cover	Rossetti and His Circle more books like this by Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn add to wishlist Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house in Chelsea was a bohemian enclave in Victorian London, the social centre for such rebels as the visionary painter Edward Burne-Jones, the socialist William Morris, the aesthete James McNeil Whistler and the poet Charles Swinburne. The rumours it aroused mixed fact and fiction to tell of love affairs between artists ... see all copies from $2.91! new only from $72.89! \| first editions
23 view cover	British Artists and the Modernist Landscape more books like this by Ysanne Holt add to wishlist In this detailed study of the landscapes and rural scenes of Britain and France made by artists like George Clausen, Philip Wilson Steer, Augustus John, Laura Knight, J.D. Fergusson and Spencer Gore, Ysanne Holt investigates the imaginary geographies behind the pictures and reconsiders the relationship between national identity, "Englishness" and ... see all copies from $60.00! new only from $78.55! \| first editions
24	Victorian Water Colors more books like this by Christopher Newall add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! first editions
25 view cover	Lawrence Alma-Tadema more books like this by Edmund Swinglehurst add to wishlist see all copies from $13.57! new only from $53.00! \| first editions

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	Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema by Russell Ash see all from $3.15! new only from $28.55!
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