RUSKIN, JOHN. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent, Avallon, 30 August 1882, 2 pages, 8vo. A fine letter evaluating the foremost artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement: "...Let me beg you...not to hasten your work on P[re]-Raphaelitism. I can give you some facts about it which will, I believe, modify the view in which you have treated it. Madox Browne never had any leading power whatever, he was merely one of the followers. Rossetti was the real master, Millais, the most acute-intense, and unexampled in genius & artistic power; and Holman Hunt, the religious force. At present, Edward Burne-Jones and he [Hunt] represent this school; -- you must not think of subordinate men. For my own works you would never read them if I sent them, there are too many thick volumes, with a philosophy ranging from cooking to theology..." (Forbes)

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RUSKIN, JOHN. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent, Avallon, 30 August 1882, 2 pages, 8vo. A fine letter evaluating the foremost artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement: "...Let me beg you...not to hasten your work on P[re]-Raphaelitism. I can give you some facts about it which will, I believe, modify the view in which you have treated it. Madox Browne never had any leading power whatever, he was merely one of the followers. Rossetti was the real master, Millais, the most acute-intense, and unexampled in genius & artistic power; and Holman Hunt, the religious force. At present, Edward Burne-Jones and he [Hunt] represent this school; -- you must not think of subordinate men. For my own works you would never read them if I sent them, there are too many thick volumes, with a philosophy ranging from cooking to theology..." (Forbes)