Paradise Lost - Paintings of English Life and Landscape 1860-1914 (Paperback)

A vanished rural way of life is examined in this study of the English countryside as seen through the eyes of painters who created their work between 1860 and 1914. Among the artists included in the text are Helen Allingham, Myles Birket Foster, Sir George Clausen and George Vicat Cole. The book is divided into different aspects of country life, including work on the land, the village, cottages and children. Christopher Wood has also written "The Dictionary of Victorian Painters", "The Pre-Raphaelites", "Olympian Dreamers - Victorian Classical Painting" and "Tisot".