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John Brett (artist)

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Brett continued to paint carefully detailed landscape views, staying in Italy on many occasions in the 1860s. He was always keen to stress the scientific precision of his rendering of nature, but often infused it with moral and religious significance, as recommended by Ruskin. In his later years he
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in Italy. Partly funded by Ruskin, Brett made the trip to paint the location, exhibiting it in 1859, again to high praise from Ruskin, who bought the painting. Other critics were less effusive, one describing it as a "gravestone for post-Ruskinism".
125:, exhibited the same year.) The precision of the geological and botanical detail in Brett's version greatly impressed Ruskin, who praised the painting highly, predicting that Brett would be able to paint a masterpiece if he were to visit the 117:, the painting that made his reputation. This depicted a youth smashing stones to create a road-surface, sitting in a brightly lit and brilliantly detailed landscape. (The treatment provided a strong contrast with 262: 390: 417: 1058: 106:. Inspired by Hunt's ideal of scientific landscape painting, Brett visited Switzerland, where he worked on topographical landscapes and came under the further influence of 1269: 1274: 937: 1284: 1279: 597: 370: 1229: 1049: 1259: 876: 410: 385: 153:
to use as a base for his large family while he painted, sketched and photographed the south and west coasts of Wales. An exhibition in 2001 at the
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Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII
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painted more coastal subjects and seascapes, subjects he came to know well due to his ownership of a 210-ton schooner,
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Brett was also a keen astronomer, having studied the subject from childhood. He was elected a Fellow of the
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was also an artist and during 1850 and 1851 they shared a studio. In 1851 he began lessons in art with
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A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
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brought together many of the major works from this period of his career.
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Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource
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movement, mainly notable for his highly detailed landscapes.
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on 8 December 1831, the son of an army vet. His sister
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Bridgman, Roger. "Brett, John Watkins (1805–1863)".
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John Brett - a Pre-Raphaelite on the Shores of Wales
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott
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Index


ARA
Pre-Raphaelite


Reigate
Rosa Brett
James Duffield Harding
Richard Redgrave
Royal Academy Schools
John Ruskin
William Holman Hunt
Coventry Patmore
John William Inchbold
Henry Wallis
painting of the same name
Val d'Aosta
Mediterranean
castle
Newport, Pembrokeshire
National Museum of Wales
Cardiff
Royal Astronomical Society
Art Workers' Guild
List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings
The Stonebreaker
Henry Wallis
50 artworks by or after John Brett
Art UK
"Tate Collection – John Brett"

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