Background information

This page collects together some information relevant to the 19th Century art, illustration and architecture on this website, which is scattered throughout the site.

General Information

• Foundation of the Royal Academy
• Presidents of the Royal Academy
• The Chantrey Bequest
• Henry Tate's Gift
• Building of the National Gallery
• Downfall of the Liverpool Academy
• 19th C art in London
• 19th C art in Britain
• Art Bookshops in Charing Cross Road
• Sculpture pages
• Architect pages
• London parks
• London Rail Stations
• Kings and Queens of England since 1800
• Modern Sculptors
• Water and Victorians - mainly sculptural fountains
• Cathedrals and churches

Schools of Art

• Arts and Crafts artists
• Australian Art and Britain
• Birmingham School of Art
• Bristol artists and the Bristol School
• Century Guild
• Classical Architecture
• Classical Painters
• Egyptian Style
• Lambeth School of Art
• Manchester Artists
• Newlyn School of Painters
• Norwich School of Painters
• Orientalist Painters
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Sass's Academy, Cary's Academy

Collectors and Philanthropists

• Elias Ashmole and his Bequest (Ashmolean Museum)
• Francis Chantrey's Bequest
• Lord Leighton's Bequest
• John Ruskin
• Merton and Lady Russell-Cotes and the Russell-Cotes Museum
• Henry Tate and the Tate Gallery
• Henry Willett and the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
• Pictures from the Ionides and Townshend Bequests in the V & A

Materials/Techniques

• Building materials
• Coade Stone
• Materials for sculptures
• Sgraffito decoration
• Tempera painting

Full list of artists // London museums // Other museums in England // Illustration // Pre-Raphaelite illustration // Sculpture // Cathedrals and churches // Architects

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