Drawn to the 19th Century
Drawn to the 19th Century demonstrates why works on paper of the period have become such a pleasure to collect. Through the late eighteenth century and into the nineteenth, artists expanded the potential of drawing materials and, in particular, developed watercolour as an expressive medium in its own right. Many came to specialise in watercolour, applying it to the full range of subject matter, in rivalry of oil, and founding societies for its promotion, notably the Society of Painters in Water Colours.
Watercolour was particularly suited to recording nature in the open air, its fluidity and transparency being ideal at suggesting the transience of season and weather as understood by Romantic sensibilities. The leading art critic, John Ruskin, promoted two contrasting approaches to truth to nature' Turnerian atmospherics and
Pre-Raphaelite precision and these were synthesised by some of the most searching of landscape painters, such as Albert Goodwin. Goodwin's oeuvre also reveals the increasing opportunities that artists had to travel internationally, during the age of an expanding British Empire.
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Drawn to the 19th Century demonstrates why works on paper of the period have become such a pleasure to collect. Through the late eighteenth century and into the nineteenth, artists expanded the potential of drawing materials and, in particular, developed watercolour as an expressive medium in its own right. Many came to specialise in watercolour, applying it to the full range of subject matter, in rivalry of oil, and founding societies for its promotion, notably the Society of Painters in Water Colours.
Watercolour was particularly suited to recording nature in the open air, its fluidity and transparency being ideal at suggesting the transience of season and weather as understood by Romantic sensibilities. The leading art critic, John Ruskin, promoted two contrasting approaches to truth to nature' Turnerian atmospherics and
Pre-Raphaelite precision and these were synthesised by some of the most searching of landscape painters, such as Albert Goodwin. Goodwin's oeuvre also reveals the increasing opportunities that artists had to travel internationally, during the age of an expanding British Empire.
Artists on show
- Albert Goodwin
- Alfred Parsons
- Alfred William Hunt
- Algernon Talmage
- Anthony Thomas Devis
- Arthur Perigal the Younger
- Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
- Benjamin Walter Spiers
- British School, 19th Century
- Cecil Arthur Hunt
- Charles Bentley
- Charles Branwhite
- Charles Green
- David Cox
- Day & Haghe
- Edward Dayes
- Edward Duncan
- Edward Theodore Compton
- Ernest George
- Francis Edward James
- Francis Nicholson
- Frederick H. Henshaw
- Frederick Richard Pickersgill
- Gabriel Carelli
- George Cuitt the Elder鈥�
- George Goodwin Kilburne
- George Gordon Fraser
- George James Knox
- George Morland
- George Moutard Woodward
- George Pyne
- George Sheffield
- George Sidney Shepherd
- George Weatherill
- Giles Firman Phillips
- Helen Allingham
- Henry Bright
- Henry Bright
- Henry Perlee Parker
- Herbert Menzies Marshall
- Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
- James Orrock
- John Edmund Buckley
- John Fulleylove
- John Glover
- John Massey Wright
- John Sherrin
- John Thomas Serres
- John Varley
- John Warwick Smith
- John William North
- Louis Haghe
- Mildred Anne Butler
- Miles Edmund Cotman
- Moses Griffith
- Myles Birket Foster
- Nicholas Pocock
- Paul Sandby Munn
- Peter de Wint
- Richard Henry Wright
- Robert Winchester Fraser
- Rose Barton
- Samuel Hieronymous Grimm
- Samuel Prout
- St. George Hare
- Thomas Bush Hardy
- Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham
- Thomas Hartley Cromek
- Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
- Thomas Miles Richardson I
- Thomas Rowlandson
- Thomas Shotter Boys
- William Alexander
- William Callow
- William Edward Frost
- William Edward Webb
- William Evans of Eton
- William Fraser Garden
- William Henry Hunt
- William Hough
- William Lionel Wyllie
- William Manners
- William Payne
- William Simpson
- William Ward
- William Wyld
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