maddox-brown

Updated: July 22, 2025

The cult that declares for anything as a subject, its value dependent upon that which the artist adds, stands as a healthy balance to that band of literary painters which affected English art a generation ago, the school of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Maddox-Brown, who strove to present ideas through art.

Henry Rankin Poore - Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures