Christiana Payne

Djanogly Art Gallery

This book examines the functions served by nineteenth-century rustic genre paintings in their social and intellectual context. It also deals with the issues raised by their contemporary popularity and subsequent neglect in the twentieth century.This collection fills a gap in the historical analysis of nineteenth-century art. Rustic genre painting encompasses a variety of themes: charity, education, family life and piety. The book examines the political topicality of many of the paintings and their relationship to the extension of suffrage, to campaigns to improve working-class housing and to the roles prescribed for women. The universal themes of these paintings have an immediate appeal to the viewer: their closest analogy in contemporary society is probably television soap opera, and their continuing popularity is shown by their use on greeting cards and stationery.This book reproduces over 100 illustrations by artists such as William Mulready, the Pre-Raphaelites and the Newlyn School, as well as examining the relatively neglected work of David Wilkie, William Collins, Thomas Webster, Thomas Faed and Alfred Fripp.

Scenes of Cottage Life in Nineteenth-century British Art : Djanogly Art Gallery, The University of Nottingham Arts Centre, 26 September - 8 November, 1998, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, 25 November - 9 January 1999

Rustic Simplicity

This guide to John Brett (1831–1902) investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. In addition to exploring the familiar early works, including The Val d'Aosta and Stonebreaker, it provides information on his later, less-known coastal and marine paintings. Brett's turbulent friendship with John Ruskin is discussed, as are his relations with his beloved sister, Rosa, and his partner Mary, with whom he had seven children. His fervent interest in astronomy, his love of the sea, and his lifelong pursuit of wealth and recognition are all examined in this reassessment, which concludes with a catalogue raisonné of his works.

Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter

John Brett

Alison Smith

Jan Marsh

Colin Trodd

Susan P. Casteras

Dianne Sachko Macleod

Christine Poulson

Julie F. Codell

Paul Barlow

Pamela Gerrish Nunn

Dr George M Korres, MR

Michael Hickox

Colin Cruise

Judith Bronkhurst

Stephen Wildman

Philip MacEvansoneya

"Re-framing the Pre-Raphaelites is a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field of Pre-Raphaelite studies. Some essays are case studies of well-known visual and literary works by founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; others explore meanings generated by Pre-Raphaelite works on specific themes and define the cultural work done by them. There are essays on John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Joanna Boyce, Edward Burne-Jones and other artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. Among the subjects discussed are gender, class, ethnicity, national and regional identity, patronage, the position of the professional woman artist, the nude, images of women and the Victorian cult of death. Some of the authors treat their chosen subject in a mainly art-historical context with a focus on new scholarly research. A number of the essays, in contrast, are informed by post-structuralist, feminist and psychoanalytic theories. These theoretical approaches lead the reader to consider both familiar and lesser-known works in new, and often controversial, frameworks and should provoke further theoretical and historical debate in this field." "Several of the essays are based on papers given at the Pre-Raphaelite session of the 1994 Conference of the Association of Art Historians."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Historical and Theoretical Essays

Re-framing the Pre-Raphaelites

Discusses the ideological uses of agricultural imagery during the period 1780-1890, exploring how and why the myth of rural contentment was perpetuated by these images and how the images contrast with the actual features of 19th-century rural life.

Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England, 1780-1890

Toil and Plenty

Christiana Payne

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