Christopher Wood who died in January was a giant in the world of Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite pictures.
On one of the walls he hung a framed quotation from Art Journal in 1867: "I can scarcely imagine a task more agreeable for a gentleman of means, taste and leisure than to set himself to the consistent decoration and furnishing of a Gothic villa."
His gallery is still going:
2 comments:
Thanks Hermes,
I have been very taken up with the role of art dealer, critic, historian and collector in the 1850-1939 era. I’ve been particularly interested in Bernard Berenson, Joseph Duveen, Nathan Wildenstein, Geoffrey Agnew, Paul Cassirer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and others because they changed the way people saw art and bought art.
Christopher Wood did exactly the same thing exactly for Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art, Arts and Crafts and even Gothic. We may not all enjoy Gothic revival, but it was certainly time for the Victorian era to be reassessed.
Wood died far too young :(
Hels
Art and Architecture, mainly
What a good comment. He certainly made me look at their paintings with new eyes.
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