The Cotman Collection | Ruskin, John,

John Ruskin


A leading English art critic in the Victorian period Ruskin was, additionally, a watercolour painter and draughtsman. Ruskin notably wrote extensively on J. M.W Turner in what became a five volume work titled Modern Painters where he asserted the superiority of recent developments in landscape painting over those produced by Old Masters. Between 1870 and 1878 Ruskin served as the first Slade Professor of Fine Art as Oxford University where the University of Oxford where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing in 1871.