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- Title
John Ruskin and the National Gallery: evolving ideas about curating the nation's paintings during the second half of the nineteenth century.
- Authors
Avery-Quash, Susanna
- Abstract
The article discusses the key role played by painter and art historian Charles Lock Eastlake and writer and social reformer John Ruskin on the way Great Britain's National Gallery has curated its collection of paintings in the second half of the nineteenth century. Topics include the gallery's collections like the master paintings bought from the heirs of philanthropist John Julius Angerstein and the relationship of Ruskin with the gallery's Ralph Nicholson Wornum and William Boxall.
- Subjects
COLLECTION management (Museums); NATIONAL Gallery (Great Britain); RUSKIN, John, 1819-1900; PAINTING; MUSEUM acquisitions; EASTLAKE, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865
- Publication
Journal of Art Historiography, 2020, Vol 22, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2042-4752
- Publication type
Article