John Ruskin, the only child of John James Ruskin (1785–1864), a sherry importer, and Margaret Cock (1781–1871), was born on 8th February 1819, at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square,London. In 1823 the Ruskin family moved to a semi-detached house with a large garden at28 Herne Hill,...
by Greg Wise, is nearer the mark, at least visually. But Wise plays Ruskin as an austere ascetic, whose passions are reserved for the stones of Venice and the paint of the pre-Raphaelites. He cannot countenance the physicality of his young bride Euphemia Gray, as she confronts...
John Ruskin(born February 8, 1819,London, England—died January 20, 1900, Coniston, Lancashire) was an Englishcriticof art,architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctiveprosestylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who...