John Ruskin and Art

Waterfall at Brantwood by Ruskin

Zipporah, one of the daughters of Jethro by Ruskin

Rose La Touch by Ruskin. He had been deeply in love with Rose since meeting her as a young girl, and her early death at the age of 25 disturbed him greatly

Alpine Ravine by Ruskin. He had been interested in geology since boyhood, and later travelled extensively in Switzerland and northern Italy, nearly settling there in the 1860s

 Ruskin became a champion of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters in the early 1850s. Their style of truth and realism fitted the principles he taught from his studies of the old Italian masters while working on Modern Painters, the last volume of which appeared in 1860. This association had profound consequences for Ruskin's private life. He had married Euphemia (Effie) Gray in 1848, but the marriage was a failure. An annullment was granted to Effie in 1854 on the grounds of non-consummation, and she was quickly remarried to John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelite whom Ruskin most admired.