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Coined the ‘leader of our English Realists’ by 19th-century art critic John Ruskin, Clarkson Stanfield’s dramatic landscapes gained widespread admiration.
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A Blessed Trinity

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Astronomers in the Poetry of Sarah Williams and Francis Thompson

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‘The Hay Wain’: A Definitive Image of the English Countryside
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‘The Hay Wain’: A Definitive Image of the English Countryside

Landscape artist John Constable immortalized England’s vanishing pastoral lifestyle in his monumental canvases.
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A Home for Ancient Music and Instruments

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Clarkson Stanfield: England’s Cherished Scene Painter

Clarkson Stanfield: England’s Cherished Scene Painter

Coined the ‘leader of our English Realists’ by 19th-century art critic John Ruskin, Clarkson Stanfield’s dramatic landscapes gained widespread admiration.
A Blessed Trinity

A Blessed Trinity

A late minister’s wife honored her husband’s legacy by giving the Christian faith one of its long-lasting hymns, “Holy, Holy, Holy.”
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