Born
February 8, 1819, London, United Kingdom
English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.
geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
Notable works
Modern Painters 5 vols. (1843–1860)
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
The Stones of Venice 3 vols. (1851–1853)
Unto This Last (1860, 1862)
Fors Clavigera (1871–1884)
Praeterita 3 vols. (1885–1889)
Spouse
Effie Gray
1848
Died
20 January 1900 (aged 80)
Coniston, Lancashire, England
Christ Church, Oxford
King's College London
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
William Morris
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
George Elliot
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Thomas Babington
Mattew Arnold
John Henry Newman