John William Godward: The Eclipse of ClassicismAntique Collector's Club, 1997 - 286 páginas Plucked from oblivion, Godward serves as the last best example of 19th century Greco-Roman Classicism. Of a reclusive nature and painting in a style completely out-of-date with post-war Europe, this genius was and remained obscure. Godward's brilliance, with the recent revival of interest in his fallow Classicists, Alma-Tadema and Lord Leighton, is only now coming to light. Godward's art sought to portray peace, feminine beauty and ideal perfection in an age careening headlong into atrocity. He did so by marvelously painted and composed pictures of beautiful women in halycon classical environments. He was a niche painter whose subject, while arresting, was narrow. However, only Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was better at painting this genre of 'patrician women on marble benches'. Melancholia, fed by ill health and increasing artistic criticism overwhelmed his fantasy world of serenity and he died by his own hand. |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
PART ONE 18691892 | 17 |
WILTON ROAD AND FORMAL TRAINING 18821886 | 23 |
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410 Fulham Road Alma-Tadema Arthur Tooth artist Bénézit catalogue Christie's London ac circular CLASSICAL BEAUTY classical subject col repro Colour Plate Cooling Gallery Courtesy Christie's Courtesy Richard Green Courtesy Sotheby's Cremetti letter dated lower left dated lower right dated Prov dealer Eugène Cremetti exedra Exhib Fulham Road Gilbert Milo-Turner GIRL Godward painted Green Fine Paintings Harrogate J.W. Godward John William Godward Leger Galleries letter to Godward London Colour Plate Mary Frederica McLean ec McLean letter Messrs Milo-Turner coll oil on canvas oil on panel painter Peter John Godward picture POMPEIAN PORTRAIT present location unknown repro REVERIE Roman Rome Royal Academy signed and dated sold Christie's London Sotheby's Belgravia ac Sotheby's London ac Sotheby's New York stola Summer Exhibition Tadema Terrace Thomas McLean unknown Prov verso W.W. Sampson Walker Art Gallery watercolour Wimbledon Winter Exhibition Wontner York ac