Paintings from the Reign of Victoria; The Royal Holloway Collection, London

This exhibition showcases 60 extraordinary paintings illustrating some of the highest achievements in figurative and landscape art of the 19th century. Acquired by Thomas Holloway to enhance the women's college he had founded in 1879, the collection includes many of the most visible and praised "modern canvasses" in London in the 1880's.

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Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London

244 pages, softbound and hardbound, with 78 color plates and 95 comparative illustrations; authored by Dr. Mary Cowling, Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Curator the College Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway; with additional essays by Dr. Dianne Sachko Macleod, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis; Dr. Christiana Payne, Senior Lecturer of Art, Oxford Brooks University, Oxford; and Andrew Wilton, the Tate Gallery, London. An Introduction is provided by Dr. Tim Barringer, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. The book includes artist biographies, chronology, and bibliography. Hardcover distributed by Frances Lincoln, Ltd. Published in 2008.

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