Samuel Prout Loan Exhibition at BADA March 2017
Posted on 19th January 2017
The BADA fair is in full swing. Only a few days left so please come and see the show . Samuel Prout (1783-1852) 'A Grand Tour in Watercolour' Samuel Prout was an artist who, in his day, was considered to be amongst the greatest of the English Watercolour School. Ruskin became a champion, praising Prout's drawings for "their magnificent certainty and ease and their firmness of line." Ruskin was referring to the drawings on which, in Victorian times, Prout's fame depended - his rendering of Continental Gothic architecture, gabled buildings, town squares and, above all, cathedrals, enlivened by numerous figures. Such...