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RADCLIFFE, Alida Graveraet.

Schools and masters of painting. 1895..

759 R12

Nearly half the book is given to Italian artists; there is also a sketch
of early Christian and Byzantine art, and chapters on other schools.
In the appendix are described the most important pictures of the
principal galleries.

ROBERTSON, John Forbes.

Great painters of Christendom, from Cimabue to Wilkie..qr759 R54 SHINN, Earl, (pseud. Edward Strahan), & Walton, William,

comp.

Selected pictures from the Art treasures of America. 1888

STEWART, William H.

2V.

qr759 S55

Catalogue de luxe of the modern masterpieces gathered by W. H. Stewart, to be disposed of at public sale, Feb. 3d and 4th, 1898; comp. by T. E. Kirby. 2v. in I. 1898......qr759 S85 Contains monographs upon artists represented in the collection. consists of beautiful photogravures.

STILLMAN, William James.

V.2

Venus and Apollo in painting and sculpture. 2v. 1897...qr759 S857 v.2 consists of a duplicate set of plates.

Considers the treatment in art, of the god and goddess of love and
beauty. Gives a brief biography of each artist with an account and
photograph of his special work.

TYNER, George N.

Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable modern paintings belonging to G. N. Tyner, to be disposed of at absolute public sale, Feb. 1, 1901. 1901....

VAN DYKE, John Charles.

Text-book of the history of painting. 1894. (College histories of art.)...

.1759 T98

"General bibliography," p.15, also a list of books recommended, at the
beginning of each chapter.

.759 V18

Covers the range of European art and that which preceded it, from
Persian enamel, tile, and Egyptian wall-painting, to the American work
of to-day.

VIARDOT, Louis.

Wonders of European art. 1885. (Wonders of art and archæ

ology.) ...

.759 V29

Traces briefly the history of the Spanish, German, Flemish, Dutch and
French schools of painting.

VIARDOT, Louis, and others.

Brief history of the painters of all schools. 1877....

..9759 V29b

Useful reference book, as it contains all that any one, except the special
student, cares to know about the great artists. Enough is said to give
an idea of the position they occupied in the schools to which they be-
longed. The introductions and the criticisms of pictures are by the
well-known French critic, Louis Viardot.

WILSON, Mrs Lucy Langdon (Williams).

Picture study in elementary schools. 4v. 1899-1900.

v.I. Primary grades; manual for teachers.

v.2. Pupil's book for primary grades. v.3. Grammar grades; manual for teachers. v.4. Pupil's book for grammar grades. V.I and 3 contain numerous bibliographies. WOLTMANN, Alfred, & Wörmann, Karl. History of painting. 2v. 1894..

v.1. Ancient, early Christian and mediæval.

.759 W76

.759 W84

v.2. Painting of the renaissance.

"A general history of painting, the best at present [1897] accessible in
English. It has been condensed from the German original; there are
many illustrations, and the book is certainly useful, however much it
lacks in picturesqueness of narrative and originality of insight."
Russell Sturgis.

WORNUM, Ralph Nicholson.

Epochs of painting; a biographical and critical essay on painting and painters. 1864

Various schools of painting

AMERICAN ART LEAGUE, Chicago, pub.

-759 W89

759.1 American school

Essays on American art and artists, by F. Hopkinson Smith and others. 1896.....

qr759.1 A51

Fully illustrated. Contains chapters on the National academy of de-
sign, Pennsylvania academy of fine arts, sketches of Charles Stanley
Reinhart, the Moran family, Dan Beard, etc.

CAFFIN, Charles Henry.

American masters of painting; appreciations of some American painters. 1902 ..

.759.1 C12

Contents: Inness.-La Farge.-Whistler.-Sargent.-Winslow Homer.-
Abbey.-George Fuller.-H. D. Martin.-George de Forest Brush.-A.
H. Wyant.-D. W. Tryon.-Horatio Walker.-Gilbert Stuart.

KING, Pauline.
American mural painting; a study of the important decorations

by distinguished artists in the United States. 1902 ..... .759.1 K26

Illustrated descriptions of the principal specimens of mural painting at
the Columbian exposition, in the Boston public library, the Con-
gressional library, the Appellate courts building, New York, and some
private residences in the United States.

PRICE, Samuel Woodson.

Old masters of the Bluegrass. 1902.

(Filson club. Publica

tions. no.17.)

..qr759.1 P94

Contents: M. H. Jouett.-Catalogue of the Jouett paintings.-J. H. Bush.
-John Grimes.-Oliver Frazer.-Louis Morgan.-J. T. Hart.

RUMMELL, John, & Berlin, Mrs E.M.

Aims and ideals of representative American painters. 1901...759.1 R86

A brief, but careful and discriminating study of the characteristics of
the greatest American painters. Special consideration is given to
Hunt, Whistler, Inness, La Farge, Chase and Homer. Other artists
are more briefly considered, and the book closes with an estimate of
America's place in the art world.

SHELDON, George William.

American painters, with examples of their work engraved on

wood. 1879

Recent ideals of American art. 1890....

.qr759.1 S54

.qr759.1 S54r

Illustrated with a large number of full-page reproductions of paintings.

TUCKERMAN, Henry Theodore.

Book of the artists; American artist life, comprising biographical and critical sketches of American artists, preceded by an historical account of the rise and progress of art in America. 1867..

..qr759.1 T81

Individual artists

BOWDOIN, William Goodrich.

James McNeill Whistler; the man and his work. 1901..759.1 W62b A short biographical sketch of this American painter and etcher, by a warm admirer. It contains some characteristic anecdotes of Whistler, and some illustrations of his paintings.

HASSAM, Childe.

Three cities; [plates].

1899...

qr759.1 H34

Reproductions of pictures of characteristic scenes in New York, London
and Paris.

KNOWLTON, Helen Mary.

Art-life of William Morris Hunt. 1899. . . .

.759.1 H94k

Author was a pupil of the artist and gives a graphic picture of his in-
teresting life.

MASON, George Champlin.

Life and works of Gilbert Stuart. 1894..

List of Stuart's works, p.123-283.

.qr759.1 S92m

"For Americans, Stuart has a peculiar value beyond his artistic merit
though that is considerable. The book...contains ten photographic
copies of portraits by the artist, besides the two of the 'Gibbs
Washington' and two portraits of Stuart himself. The text is in-
teresting biographically and historically." Russell Sturgis.

PERKINS, Augustus Thorndike.

Sketch of the life and a list of some of the works of John
Singleton Copley. 1873.....

....1759.1 C79P
American painter, born 1837; contemporary of Benjamin West. Famous
for his portraits and historical paintings. This sketch of his life is
written by a great-grandson. A descriptive list of his pictures to be
found in America is given, with the name of the owner, also a partial
list of his pictures in England.

REID, Robert, of New York.

In summertime; [plates]. 1900....

Reproductions of paintings by the well-known American artist. TRUMBULL, John.

qr759.1 R31

Catalogue of the collection of studies and sketches made for

his historical paintings, as well as his collection of engrav

ings and portraits, to be sold Dec. 17th, 1896. 1896.....qr759.1 T78 Biographical sketch of Trumbull, p.5-6.

WAERN, Cecilia.

John La Farge, artist and writer. 1896. (Portfolio mono

graphs.)

WARE, William.

..qr759.1 L14W

Lectures on the works and genius of Washington Allston. 1852

.759.1 A44w

759.2 English school

ART annuals. v.1-date. 1891-date....

V.I.

.qr759.2 A78

Armstrong, Walter. Briton Riviere, his life and work.-Huish,
M. B. Birket Foster, his life and work.-Bonheur, Juliette. Rosa
Bonheur. Stephens, F. G. J. G. Hook, his life and work.

V.2.

Thomson, D. C. Life and work of Luke Fildes.-Cartwright, J. M.
Life and work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.-Farrar, F. W. & Meynell,
Mrs A. T. William Holman Hunt.-Courtney, W. L. Hubert Her-
komer, his life and work.

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George Frederic Watts, his life and work.-
William Quiller Orchardson, his life and work.-Monk-
house, W. C. Sir Edward John Poynter, his life and work.-Baldry,
A. L.

V.4.

Marcus Stone.

Crane, Walter. Work of Walter Crane.-Meynell, Wilfrid.

Life

and work of Lady Butler.-Day, L. F. William Morris and his
work.-Gilbert, W. M. Peter Graham.-Vallance, Aymer. Decorative
art of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.-Carter, A. C. R. Work of the war
artists in South Africa.

v.5.

Monkhouse, W. C. Life and works of Sir John Tenniel.-Lusk,
Lewis. Life and work of B. W. Leader.-Lascelles, Helen. Life and
work of Sir W. B. Richmond.-Rossetti, H. M. M. Life and work of
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

v.6. Hatton, Joseph. Life and work of Alfred Gilbert.-Sinclair, W.
M. John MacWhirter, R. A., his life and work.

BATE, Percy H.

English pre-Raphaelite painters; their associates and successors. 1899...

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Epitome of the essential facts of the preraphaelite movement, and the
work of the founders and followers of the school.
artists who have painted under its inspiration.
photogravures and half-tones.

BUXTON, Harry John Wilmot.

Reviews briefly the
Illustrated by 91

English painters; with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler. 1883. (Illustrated hand-books of art history.)

CHESNEAU, Ernest.

English school of painting, [1730-1882]. 1891...

.759.2 B98

..759.2 C42

"His criticisms of English art have been marked by an insight into
its significance which is very surprising in a Continental author."
Russell Sturgis.

ENGLISH artists of the present day; essays. 1872.....

.qr759.2 E64
Contents: Millais, George Mason, Thomas Armstrong, George H.
Boughton, by Sidney Colvin.-Holman Hunt, Landseer, James Clarke
Hook, by F. G. Stephens.-Sir John Gilbert, by J. B. Atkinson.-J. E.
Hodgson, G. A. Storey, W. F. Yeames, D. W. Wynfield, by Tom Tay-
lor. Thomas Woolner, Henry Hugh Armstead, W. Cave Thomas, by
J. L. Tupper.

Short critical essays, illustrated by photographs of some less familiar
pictures of the artists studied.

GREAT masters of decorative art.

1900. (Art annuals.).....q759.2 G82
Contents: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, by Aymer Vallance.-William Mor-
ris, by L. F. Day.-Walter Crane, with notes by himself.
Being the extra numbers of the "Art journal" for Easter 1898-1900.

LA SIZERANNE, Robert de.
English contemporary art. 1898.

The same

.759.2 L34 1759.2 L34

Gives a sketch of the preraphaelite movement, studies the work and
methods of Watts, Holman Hunt, Leighton, Alma-Tadema, Millais,
Herkomer and Burne-Jones as typical representatives of contemporary
art, and closes with a general study of the subject.

MARTIN, David.
Glasgow school of painting. 1897.

qr759.2 M42

Contents: D. Y. Cameron.-J. E. Christie.-Joseph Crawhall.-T. Millie
Dow. David Gauld.-James Guthrie.-J. Whitelaw Hamilton.-George
Henry.-E. A. Hornel.-William Kennedy.-John Lavery.-W. Y.
MacGregor.-Harrington Mann.-T. Corsan Morton.-Stuart Park.-
James Paterson.-George Pirie.-Alexander Roche.-R. Macaulay Ste-
venson.-Grosvenor Thomas.-E. A. Walton.-Other painters of the
Glasgow school.
The young Glasgow artists have come to the front very rapidly in the
last few years, and now their pictures are to be found in every impor-
tant exhibition. Nearly half the artists considered in this volume were
represented in the annual exhibition of the Carnegie institute in 1896.
To the descriptive and biographical sketches is prefixed an article on
the Glasgow school by Mr Francis H. Newberry. The book is il-
lustrated with excellent full-page reproductions of photographs direct
from the paintings.

MONKHOUSE, William Cosmo.

British contemporary artists. 1899.

Contents: Watts. Millais.-Leighton.-Burne-Jones.-Orchardson.-
Alma-Tadema.-Poynter.

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Earlier English water-colour painters. 1890.

Popular and non-technical, but analytical and discriminating history
of the art, beginning with the Sandbys and ending with Cox and Hard-
ing. Has 14 copperplates and many minor illustrations.

PENLEY, Aaron.

English school of painting in water-colours; its theory and practice. 1880..

..qr759.2 P39 "His object was to place before a student, in the minutest detail, the whole course of the Art of Water-Colour Painting, from the first simple wash of the sky, to the highly finished picture." Preface.

REDGRAVE, Gilbert Richard.

History of water-colour painting in England. 1892. (Il

lustrated hand-books of art history.)..

REDGRAVE, Richard, & Samuel.

Century of painters of the English school. 1890....

.759.2 R274

..759.2 R27

Second edition illustrated, abridged and continued to 1889.
"Account of the English painters from the time of Henry VIII to the
close of the generation which was passing away about 1885. It is
very readably written in narrative form. Few books of this kind are
as just and sympathetic as this. It does not give the names of
those living in 1889." Russell Sturgis.

ROGET, John Lewis.

History of the "Old water-colour" society, now the Royal society of painters in water-colours, with biographical notices of its members; preceded by an account of English water-colour art and artists in the 18th century. 2v. 1891 ....

..9759.2 R618

The various phases and fortunes of the old society, founded in 1804,
are amply and carefully treated. In addition to biographical notices
of members of the society, Mr Roget has gathered from contemporary
journals and magazines the opinions of the ablest critics of the day
on noteworthy drawings as they were exhibited. The Varleys, Nattes,
Gilpin, Barret, F. Glover, J. Cristall, W. Hunt, S. Prout, J. D.
Harding, J. F. Levins, C. V. Fielding, De Wint, and numerous other
artists are criticised.

ROSSETTI, William Michael, ed.

Præraphaelite diaries and letters.

1900...

.759.2 R74

Contents: Some early correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1835-
54. Madox Brown's diary, etc., 1844-56.-The P. R. B. journal kept by
W. M. Rossetti, 1849-53.

RUSKIN, John.
Art of England. 1893...

..9759.2 R89

Contents: Realistic schools of painting: D. G. Rossetti and W. Holman
Hunt.-Mythic schools of painting: E. Burne-Jones and G. F. Watts.
-Classic schools of painting: Sir F. Leighton and Alma Tadema.-
Fairy land: Mrs Allingham and Kate Greenaway. The fireside: John
Leech and John Tenniel.-The hill-side: George Robson and Copley
Fielding.

Lectures delivered at Oxford in 1883 during his second tenure of the
Slade professorship.

Pre-Raphaelitism

.704 R89j1

Pamphlet published in 1851, defending the work of Millais and Holman
Hunt, whose pictures had been bitterly attacked by the critics. Rus-
kin's intervention proved a turning-point in the fortunes of the pre-
raphaelites.

Bound with his "Political economy of art."

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