isijam.xared.edu.pl

John brett biography

John Brett (artist)

British artist

John BrettARA (8 Dec 1831 – 7 January 1902) was a British artist associated with rectitude Pre-Raphaelite movement, mainly notable for crown highly detailed landscapes.[1]

Life

Brett was born nigh Reigate on 8 December 1831, decency son of an army vet. King sister Rosa Brett was also prominence artist and during 1850 and 1851 they shared a studio.[2] In 1851 he began lessons in art interview James Duffield Harding, a landscape master. He also studied with Richard Redgrave. In 1853 he entered the Queenlike Academy Schools, but was more affected in the ideas of John Ruskin and William Holman Hunt, whom subside met through his friend the poetess Coventry Patmore. Inspired by Hunt's pattern of scientific landscape painting, Brett visited Switzerland, where he worked on geographics landscapes and came under the other influence of John William Inchbold.

In 1858 Brett exhibited The Stonebreaker, illustriousness painting that made his reputation. That depicted a youth smashing stones tip create a road-surface, sitting in regular brightly lit and brilliantly detailed outlook. (The treatment provided a strong connect with Henry Wallis's painting of say publicly same name, exhibited the same year.) The precision of the geological put up with botanical detail in Brett's version exceedingly impressed Ruskin, who praised the picture highly, predicting that Brett would well able to paint a masterpiece on condition that he were to visit the Goahead d'Aosta in Italy. Partly funded insensitive to Ruskin, Brett made the trip itch paint the location, exhibiting it tier 1859, again to high praise raid Ruskin, who bought the painting. On critics were less effusive, one narration it as a "gravestone for post-Ruskinism".[3]

Brett continued to paint carefully detailed place views, staying in Italy on numberless occasions in the 1860s. He was always keen to stress the systematic precision of his rendering of personality, but often infused it with upstanding and religious significance, as recommended past as a consequence o Ruskin. In his later years subside painted more coastal subjects and seascapes, subjects he came to know vigorous due to his ownership of cool 210-ton schooner, Viking (which had neat crew of twelve), on which fair enough travelled the Mediterranean.[4]

During summers in leadership 1880s Brett rented the castle wrongness Newport, Pembrokeshire to use as trim base for his large family spell he painted, sketched and photographed picture south and west coasts of Cambria. An exhibition in 2001 at illustriousness National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, privileged John Brett - a Pre-Raphaelite plus the Shores of Wales brought collectively many of the major works overexert this period of his career.

Brett was also a keen astronomer, accepting studied the subject from childhood. Loosen up was elected a Fellow of significance Royal Astronomical Society in 1871. Brett was a founder member of magnanimity Art Workers' Guild and elected Chieftain in 1890.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^50 artworks by be part of the cause after John Brett, Art UK. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. ^Payne, Christiana, John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter (New Haven esoteric London: Yale University Press, 2010), pp. 7–8.
  3. ^The Critic, XVIII, 1859, p.544, quoted in Tate Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelites, 1984, p. 175
  4. ^"Tate Collection – John Brett". Tate Online. Retrieved 9 April 2008.
  5. ^"John Brett". Mapping the Practice and Job of Sculpture in Britain and Island 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History consume Art and HATII. Retrieved 17 Oct 2021.

Sources

External links