![]() ![]() Ruskin was born on 8 February 1819, in 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London. John James and Margaret were engaged in 1809, but opposition to the union from his father John Thomas an incompetent and deeply indebted businessman, delayed the couple’s wedding. His wife, Margaret Cock (1781–1871), was the daughter of a publican in Croydon. His father, John James Ruskin (1785–1864), was brought up in Edinburgh, but moved to London and made his fortune in the wine and sherry trade as founding partner and business manager of Ruskin, Telford and Domecq. The end of the Napoleonic Wars, saw the development of a prosperous and powerful Britain and the rise of a new commercial middle-class. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability and craft. Ruskin died in 1900, but it was in the 1960s, that his contribution in the Victorian era to British painting, architecture, decorative art and to British prose literature was favourably reappraised with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Fortunately, this period proved restorative and transformational releasing a flood of creativity, that enabled him to re-establish his finances, his reputation and to a degree his personal life. Whistler, on the other hand, depressed and financially bankrupt left for Europe and eventually settled in Venice. Despite the judgement going against him, Ruskin surprisingly, suffered no significant financial ill effects but his reputation as an art critic was seriously harmed. Soon after returning, he wrote a highly critical and damaging article, against James Whistler, the American artist living in England that resulted in an infamous and highly publicised trial. Ruskin completed his last major trip to Venice, returning to England in June 1877. He also produced drawings that recorded details of Venetian architecture. He had made eleven visits and published numerous books about the city. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.įor the Victorian public, no figure was more strongly associated with Venice, than John Ruskin (1819 -1900). The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art, gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively to a new commercial middle-class. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, architectural structures and ornamentation. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. ![]() Ruskin’s writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and even following his death in 1900, up to the First World War.Ī polymath of the Victorian era, he also wrote on subjects as varied as geology, botany, myth, ornithology, education and political economics. īorn in 1819, after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, it was the era of the development of a prosperous and powerful Britain. John Ruskin – Writer and Artist, was an English critic of art, architecture and society who was a gifted painter and a distinctive writer of polemical prose, seeking to cause widespread cultural and social change. ![]()
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