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The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. [2] Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the conditions ...
Harriet Isabel Adams. Isabel Adams (bapt. 13 October 1853 – 1937), known as H. Isabel Adams, was an English artist, scientific illustrator, and author. She is most known for her botanical drawings, bookplates, and published volume of books, Wild Flowers of the British Isles (1907). [1]
William Morris Gallery. The William Morris Gallery is a museum devoted to the life and works of William Morris, an English Arts and Crafts designer and early socialist. It is located in Walthamstow at Water House, a substantial Grade II* listed Georgian home. [1] The extensive grounds of the building are a public park, known as Lloyd Park.
Clara Welles Lathrop. The sisters Clara Welles Lathrop (1853–1907), Bessie Stebbins Lathrop (1854–1930) and Susanne ( Susie) Lathrop (1860–1938) were artists and teachers in Northampton, Massachusetts, who exhibited and traveled widely. Clara was a painter, Bessie was a leather worker and woodcarver, and Susie illustrated publications.
Self-Portrait in the new studio. Carl Olof Larsson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ ˈlɑ̌ːʂɔn] ⓘ; 28 May 1853 – 22 January 1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life.
Hugh Thackeray Turner (8 March 1853 – 11 December 1937) [1] was an English Arts and Crafts architect and also an amateur china painter. [2] [3] Hugh Turner was born at Foxearth, Essex, England. [4] His father, Rev. John Richard Turner, was a Church of England vicar from Wiltshire . Turner was apprenticed to the architect Sir George Gilbert ...
Lilias Trotter was born in Marylebone, London, to Isabella and Alexander Trotter, a wealthy stockbroker for Coutts Bank. Both parents were well-read, intellectually curious, and inclined toward humanitarianism. Isabella Strange, a Low Church Anglican and the daughter of colonial administrator Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, married Alexander ...
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. The Stones of Venice examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. Ruskin discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance periods ...