Adams, a 20th-century engineer and art connoisseur who fastidiously collected the work of John Ruskin, a 19th-century English writer and artist. He admired Ruskin throughout his life, saying once ...

The historian and presenter on his new book about 12,000 years of British art, BBC philistinism and Banksy’s ‘money-making machine’.

Art critic, social critic, theorist, lecturer; draughtsman, painter; collector. Active in Britain. Son of businessman John James Ruskin (1785-1864). Guide to the principal pictures in the Academy of ...

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He even wrote a fairy ...

Commissioned by John Ruskin, who wrote "This drawing and about five others were done by the old man in all kindness and care, at my own request, for me to give as types of work for country schools of ...

Adams, a 20th-century engineer and art connoisseur who fastidiously collected the work of John Ruskin, a 19th-century English writer and artist. He admired Ruskin throughout his life, saying once ...