John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist.
He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fai.
His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied.
He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist