BRITISH ROMANTIC PAINTING

In his introduction to this lavishly illustrated general survey of one of the greatest periods of British art, the author describes the exciting intellectual and political climate of the years 1760-1860, and the variety of themes and styles that earned the name Romantic. The seventy-five color plates and their accompanying commentaries set the well-known painters in their context: Turner and Constable, Stubbs and Gainsborough, Palmer and Cotman are considered among their less familiar contemporaries and in the light of current ideas, tastes and influences. A leading authority of British Romantic art, Raymond Lister's publications include The Paintings of Samuel Palmer and The Paintings of William Blake (both in the same format as this volume), Samuel Palmer: His Life and Art, and the Catalogue Raisonne of Palmer's works, all published by Cambridge University Press.