Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites
Lecturer: Professor Michael Wheeler
Himself a
brilliant draughtsman, John Ruskin was
England’s most influential art critic.
Launching his career with Modern
Painters, in which he argued that Turner was England’s
greatest landscape painter, Ruskin went on to support the
Pre-Raphaelites and attack Whistler. His
Academy Notes could make or
break an aspiring artist’s career. Michael Wheeler, author of
Ruskin’s God, investigates
the professional and personal relationships between Ruskin and John
Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt.
