The Victorians : British painting, 1837-1901
Britain was the world's most powerful and technologically advanced country during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), and British painters responded to their nation's rapid industrialization and increasingly materialistic culture. The complexity and scope of their imagination rivaled that of Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and other English novelists and poets of the day, and they represented the British social and cultural l...