Artist

John Ruskin

Portrait of John Ruskin

British, 1819–1900

John Ruskin was a British Realism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art.

John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.

Collections represented

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