by stuart | Dec 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
I promised in my last blog, which was about the Ruskin Exhibition held in Manchester in 1904, to remedy the absence in biographical dictionaries of an entry for J. Ernest Phythian. Phythian was one of Manchester’s foremost Ruskinians and deserves to be remembered for...
by stuart | Nov 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the spring of 1904, a major Ruskin Exhibition was mounted at the Manchester City Art Gallery. It presented drawings and paintings by Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, pictures of architecture and copies by Ruskin’s pupils, as well as portraits and...
by stuart | Nov 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
On All Hallows’ Day we remember the family of George Baker (1825-1910), the blacking manufacturer, Quaker, philanthropist, Mayor of Birmingham and Bewdley, friend of John Ruskin, and second Master of the Guild of St George. (This blog entry is intended as a...
by stuart | Oct 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
My forthcoming study of John Ruskin’s Sheffield will present the most complete biography yet published of Henry Swan (1825-1889) , the curator of St George’s Museum, Walkley. This blog post answers an important question: did Henry Swan help in the 1850s to decorate...
by stuart | Oct 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
I intend to use this space to explore a range of topics related to the Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin (1819-1900). It will include original articles, reviews and commentary, some of it revisiting old work, some of it anticipating publications to...
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