The Victorian art critic’s ideas about how industrialization stifled creativity and polluted the environment are just as relevant today as they were in the 19th century.

IT was the love triangle involving Britain’s leading art critic, his virginal wife and a pre-Raphaelite which still fascinates 150 years on from the scandal.

The archive, believed to be the largest group of Ruskin letters and manuscripts in private hands, will be auctioned at Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet.

24 June 2025 - 25 July 2025 / Stephen Ongpin Fine Art / Events, Exhibition / Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, Two Centuries of ...

Emma Thompson is kept waiting by John Ruskin film. Emma Thompson, the Hollywood star, faces a further delay before she can release her film 'Effie', about John Ruskin's love life.

It became apparent that the Jacobsons had bought 188 daguerreotypes by John Ruskin, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era and still considered one of the most eminent theorists of art.

The Big Draw Festival, the annual countrywide event, is directly inspired by Ruskin’s love of drawing. When Ruskin was in his 50s he decided to create the Guild of St George, an educational charity.

IN HIS HEYDAY John Ruskin exercised the sort of influence that today’s hyperactive “thought leaders” and “taste makers” can only dream of. Oxford University named not one but two ...

John Ruskin: Artist and Observer, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh – review This landmark show features an unprecedented range of Ruskin’s drawings and watercolours ...