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* Definition of Victorian Paintings

The Victorian Era refers to the period from the day of June 20, 1837 when Alexandrina Victoria came into power to her death on January 22, 1901, which is the most brilliant period in British history. The Victorian era is considered to be the peak of the British Industrial Revolution as well as the economic and cultural floruit of British Empire. British fine art in this period are namely called Victorian painting.

In the early Victorian Era, fast development of Britain's economy was companied by serious social problems. In the middle 20 years, Britain was in relative prosperity and stability; the life of middle class was rich and respected; people also pursued enthusiastic, modest and patriotic national spirit; and Queen Victoria was nothing else than the model with such characters. But in the last 30 years in the 19th century, the British Empire and Victoria values gradually declined, the original amiable and decent way of life was also replaced by indulgence and squander.

* Features of Victorian painting

Victorian oil painting schools include classicism, neoclassicism, romanticism, impressionism and postimpressionism etc. Victorian artists are dominated by the art ideology and creating concept of Royal Academy of Arts, take Raphael art as the model and promote the academic classicism, at the same time paintings Victorian bear the features of elegant and sweet as well as luxurious and over-decorative which are prevalent in the Victorian Era.

The characteristics of the Victorian portraits style lie first in its nature of narrative, storical, romantic and abundant decorative, and then its core subjects are historical events and classical mythology, thus many oil painting Victorian of fairies, Victorian drawings of women, pictures of children, and the oil painting portrait of girl in such a style were born. Numerous and complicated decorative details are popular in Victorian pictures, such as flowers of roses, as well as landscape, and so on.

The situation arose disaffection among many thoughtful artists, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was born.

* Victorian paintings

Since the middle of the 18th century, British painters have been following the European painting tradition in the High Renaissance, which reflect the so-called magnificent style. Victorian painters paint in magnificent style, but their goals are to show life in an as noble as possible style in the Victorian era art rather than portray the real life. Victorian artists refine the noble factors to cover the imperfect flaws of the real life. Any faithful depiction of the real world is in the bottom level according to the hierarchy of genres formulated by Royal Society of London. George Frederick Watts's "Art Speech Record" also became the milestone of Victorian period paintings. However, the Industrial Revolution brought new changes. The emergence of Manchester and other industrial center injected new vitality in Victorian artwork. Generous parvenu and upper middle class not only possessed enough wealth to purchase expensive Victorian oil paintings for sale, but also spent on ordinary British painters.

Due to the change in market demand, more and more Victorian era artists gave up historical painting. Artists devoted to create sentimental paintings which were no lack of romantic tone, and the subject of the paintings were drawn from real life, historical materials, or popular literature Germany in Biedermeier period and French in July dynasty. The painting of Richard Redgrave (1804-1888) “The Poor Teacher” is one example.

Victorian painting expression of stories or anecdotes is relevant to the popularity of the novel. This kind of oil painting generally describe literature or historical subject, and there are two Victorian artists who were well known before the enthronization of Queen Victoria, David Wilkie (1785-1841) and Robert Leslie (1794-1859) born in the United States. Wilkie’s Christopher Columbus in the Convent of La Rabida Explaining his Intended Voyage represented Victorian oil paintings created by these artists and their followers during 1830s to 1840s in UK.

As France and Germany in the midst of the nineteenth century, the dominant style of Victorian paintings for sale is eclecticism. The historical materials studied by the painters were quite broad, involving the Italian paintings in the High Renaissance as well as paintings in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Flanders and Spain etc in the 17th and 18th century.

Victorian Oil Painters

Edward Armitage (1817–1896)
George Frederick Watts (1817–1904)
William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928)

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