Date Publication Topic AP RA Subject Modes Keywords Standards Rhetoric Notes
1850-01-01 Germ WMR Reviews Clough's Bothie literature critical Clough
Bothie
early review
The Germ
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, definitive Earliest review, Germ.
1850-02-01 Germ WMR reviews Arnold's first poetry collection. literature critical Arnold's 1st poetry collection
The Germ
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Second WMR Germ review
statement re: imitation
1850-05-01 Germ WMR Reviews Browning literature critical Browning
aesthetic & critical theory
PRB aesthetic standards
naturalism
definitive How to create, critique and read aesthetic naturalism.
1851-08-01 London Lit. Refute Critic's review of Emerson literature critical Emerson portrait
Scott
Critic review
authenticity
accuracy
rebuttal, definitive Debunk Critic reviewer's Scott reference
Reminiscences ref.
1852-03-15 London Lit. Defense of WM Cayley's Dante translation literature polemical, critical defend
rebut; surprise
dismay
ethos
authenticity
rebuttal, definitive
1861-04-01 Fraser's British sculpture past/present/future art polemical, critical, educational valuation
public awareness
truth
authenticity
Greek classicism
definitive, evaluative, deliberative Thanks W.B. Scott for praise in letter 28 April 1861.
1861-11-01 Fraser's Fairness in Royal Academy exhibitions art polemical, critical RA fairness
efficiency
aesthetics
ideals
duty
fairness
evaluative, proposal Royal Academy shortcomings, unfairness.
1862-07-01 Fraser's Academy 1862 exhibition, flawed RA standards art polemical, critical authenticity
aesthetic standards
fairness
classical "high" art evaluative, definitive Royal Academy shortcomings.
1863-06-01 Fraser's RA exhibition, RA change, PRB influence art critical RA policy shift
PRB influence
Brit school
current practice
potential
change
value
evaluative, deliberative Extends June 63 Fraser's "cannot stop short"
Chapman ref Letters .
1865-04-08 Athenaeum Refute review, correct facts literature polemical correction
interpretation
reference
linguistic truth
authenticity
correctness
definitive WMR Dante translation defended.
1865-04-15 Athenaeum Reinforce WMR's previous translation literature polemical, critical comparison w/15c. Word usage comparison w/15c. Word definitive
1865-05-01 Fraser's Madox Brown as WMR aesthetic exemplar art critical, educational, historical Brown exh.
movements
PRB
examples
history
analysis
evaluative, definitive, deliberative See also MB frescoes in Manchester.
1865-06-01 Fraser's Royal Academy Exhibition art critical professional criticism
public awareness
duty
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, deliberative Ref: Reminiscences 1 PRB preference, RA Academy change
hanging
1866-10-01 FAQR Palgrave; role & function of critic art polemical, critical, educational professional criticism
classical standards
classical vs. contemporary concepts definitive, deliberative Photography/critic: clarity
refers to Palgrave 14 Aug 65 WBS letter.
1868-04-25 Examiner Refute criticism of WMR editorial work on Whitman literature polemical, historical refute
defend
correct
accuracy
clarification
facts
rebuttal, definitive Multiple Letters/Reminiscences refs included
1868-10-01 Athenaeum Explain possible WMR Chaucer error literature critical correct
explain Latin derivative and use
accuracy
Latin
connotation
definitive
1869-07-17 Athenaeum Deny connection between WMR and RA pamphlet art polemical, historical deny
refute
truth
RA treachery
fact
truth
rebuttal, definitive
1869-11-13 Academy WMR review of Brisbane's collection of Alexander Smith literature critical, educational poetics
aesthetics
imagery
aesthetic poetry
imagery
evaluative Letters cross reference.
1870-01-01 Portfolio Contemp. painters vs. PRB principles & potential art critical, polemical, educational authenticity
aesthetic standards
fairness
authenticity
PRB principles
definitive, deliberative
1870-08-13 Academy WMR review of Keningale Robert Cook literature critical poetics
aesthetics
imagery
effectiveness
aesthetic poetry
imagery
evaluative, definitive
1871-01-01 Fortnightly Newly discovered docs related to Shelley literature historical, educational discovery
explanation
documentation
bio
historical artifacts
facts
definitive, evaluative Shelley: new documents.
1871-03-01 Academy WMR review of FG Stephens' volume of collected satire literature critical, historical satire
evaluation
comparison
detail
definition
range
history
evaluative
1871-06-15 Academy WMR review of Joaquin Miller's "Songs of the Sierras" literature critical aesthetic principles
illustrative imagery
aesthetic poetic principles definitive, evaluative American poet
refs Letters and Reminiscences 2.
1872-04-01 Academy WMR comparative review of 2 ref works on Dante literature critical comparison
value
accuracy
comparison
value
achievement
evaluative
1872-04-15 Academy WMR review of J.Murray's translation of Elze's Byron literature critical, historical accuracy
translation
fact
documents
accuracy
facts
fairness
translation
evaluative, deliberative
1872-07-13 Athenaeum Clarify Mary Queen of Scots verses literature critical, historical accuracy
connotation
context
context
connotation
evaluative
1872-09-01 Dark Blue WMR review of DeVirgilii's poetic achievement literature critical, educational romanticism
poetic imagery
effectiveness
achievement
effectiveness
evaluative
1872-12-01 Academy WMR review of D.F. MacCarthy's Shelley bio literature critical, historical completeness
accuracy
fairness
facts analyzed
validated/debunked
evaluative
1873-06-02 Academy William Davis memorialized, RA failures art critical aesthetic principles
RA failures
comparison
evaluation
epideictic, evaluative Heart attack brought on by bad hanging.
1873-12-01 Academy WMR debunks Raphael attribution art critical, historical accuracy
context
facts
probability
context
value
deliberative, evaluative
1874-01-01 Academy WMR review of Landseer exhibition art critical achievement
PRB ascendance
lifetime achievement
rank
evaluative, epideictic
1874-01-03 Academy Memorialize Landseer, publicize exhibition art critical, historical memorial
achievement
rank
relative merit
accomplishment
evaluative
1874-01-03 Academy Exhibition of Cox & De Wint watercolors art critical achievement
comparison to Turner
worthy aesthetic execution evaluative
1874-01-31 Academy WMR review of WH Wilshire reference book literature critical, educational artisanship
achievement
engraving
thoroughness
comparative merit
evaluative, definitive
1874-02-07 Academy Dudley Gallery, part 1 art critical, polemical mediocrity
poor quality
low achievement
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Hanging gripe.
1874-02-14 Academy Dudley Gallery, part 2 art critical mediocrity
poor quality
low achievement
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1874-02-28 Academy WMR reviews Garnett's edition of Shelley literature historical inaccuracy
mistranslation
omission
facts
history
evaluative Shelley edition, disputed emendations.
1874-03-21 Academy WMR review of FG Stephens' vol. 2 of collected satire art
lit
critical, historical satire
evaluation
comparison
detail
definition
range
history; accuracy
evaluative, deliberative Vol 1 reviewed March 1871.
1874-03-21 Academy Announce Simpson's "Round the world" exhibit art journalistic Simpson
exhibition
world pictures
fact
news
definitive Equivocates criticism
announcement mostly.
1874-03-28 Academy Society of Lady Artists exhibition art critical, historical relative merit
imagery
"ambisexual" art
poesy
imagery
rank
merit
evaluative
1874-04-18 Academy WMR notice of 2 Regnault oil paintings art critical, polemical social &aesthetic standards rank
execution
design
PRB
evaluative, definitive Ref. Memoir 2.
1874-06-20 Academy Cole's Intn'l Exhibition; Quality & Bias art critical, polemical, educational RA deficiency
definition
standards
PRB standards
RA strictures
evaluative, deliberative RA, poor quality foreign art, bias
Cole controversy, letters ref.
1874-06-27 Academy Munich Gallery exhibition art critical, polemical, educational accuracy
quality
rank
PRB standards
value
accomplishment
evaluative, deliberative "the inner hierarchy of art . . ."
1874-08-15 Academy Dore Gallery art critical achievement
excellence
success
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative "Over-prolific French master"
1874-09-05 Academy WMR memorializes JH Foley art critical, historical, educational sculpture
preeminence
rank
lifetime achievement
rank
epideictic, definitive Suggests RA elect Woolner to replace Foley
done Dec 12 74 Academy.
1874-09-05 Academy WMR reviews Shepard's "Blake" literature critical accuracy
Blake edition
Shepard
ed.
accuracy
precision
evaluative, definitive Blake edition, Shepard ed.
1874-10-31 Academy WMR reviews W. Stillman's historical narrative literature critical narrative
history
Cretan insurrection
facts
history
evaluative Stillman former US ambassador to Greece
see Letters, 141.
1874-10-31 Academy Dudley Gallery art critical cabinet pictures
oil
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative
1874-10-10 Academy Rebut Blake publisher criticism of WMR review literature critical, polemical copyright
accuracy
facts
rebuttal
facts analyzed
validated/debunked
evaluative, rebuttal WMR Blake review Sep. 5, 1874, Academy.
1874-11-07 Academy WMR reviews "The New British Institution" art critical, polemical trivial
intellectual realism
reproductive art
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, deliberative Not all French
". . . sometimes to be called stupid."
1874-11-21 Academy Society of French Artists, part 1 art critical execution
intellectual content
importance
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1874-11-28 Academy Society of French Artists, part 2 art critical execution
intellectual content
importance
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Part 2. The importance of a well-executed national art school.
1874-12-05 Academy Society of British Artists art critical, polemical purposeless
bad art
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1874-12-12 Academy WMR pans Flemish Gallery exhibition art critical, polemical foreign schools
not all Flemish
low art
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Leys, 1 painting
not all Flemish work
on page: Woolner replaces Foley RA.
1874-12-19 Academy New docs support MacCarthy's Shelley account literature historical, critical new docs
Oxford pub & expulsion
historical artifacts
facts
definitive, evaluative Shelley, 12-1872 orig. WMR review of MacCarthy's Shelley.
1874-12-19 Academy Riddell's personal Blake mss. literature critical, historical Riddell volume
Burns poetry
historical artifacts
facts
evaluative Burns, personal volume of Riddell.
1875-01-09 Academy Water-Colour Society Gallery, "Sketches/Studies" art critical annual exhibition
relative merit
watercolor
PRB aesthetic standards
value
evaluative WMR picturesque prose
"Younger RA members stand out."
1875-01-16 Academy Water-Colour Society Gallery, part 2. art critical water-colour
achievement
merit
value
PRB aesthetic standards
past practice
evaluative Ruskin's paintings reviewed.
1875-02-02 Academy Dudley Gallery, second notice art critical Dudley
portraits/landscapes
female painters
PRB aesthetic standards
past practice
evaluative High percentage of female painters.
1875-02-06 Academy Dudley Gallery, first notice art critical, educational poetic painting; water-colour exhibition PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Poynter as poetic painting exemplar, catalogue
sonnet.
1875-02-13 Academy Agnew exhib. "High-class Watercolour Drawings" art critical Priv. exhib. Agnew water-colour PRB aesthetic standards
past practice
evaluative Painted by William Millais noted.
1875-03-13 Academy The New British Institution art critical New Brit. Inst.; foreign art
excess exhibit
PRB aesthetics
authenticity
evaluative, definitive Questions "Institution
painting from Antwerp, "Circle of Pigs."
1875-03-13 Academy Mr. J. Birnie Philips art memorial Compare Birnie Philip w/Armstead PRB aesthetic standards
body of work
definitive, evaluative Sculptors compared, Philip deceased.
1875-03-20 Academy Paintings by Elijah Walton art critical, journalistic announce collection
evaluate
Walton
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Single-painter exhibit.
1875-03-27 Academy The Linnell exhibition art critical, polemical Linnell
Pall Mall
E.T. White
PRB aesthetic standards
exhib. Stds.
evaluative Criticizes inclusion of "trade-interest" works
photography compared.
1875-03-27 Academy WMR review Marston's "All in All: Poems & Sonnets" literature critical volume reviewed
Marston
classic poetic constructs and achievement evaluative Cheyne Walk Circle
comp. to DGR, Swinburne, Shelley.
1875-04-10 Academy WMR pans Belgian Gallery & promoter art critical, polemical, educational Belgian gallery
poor quality
aesthetic norms
value
accomplishment
evaluative, definitive Forgery of Landseer
cheap art at expensive of Brit art
public.
1875-04-10 Academy French Gallery art critical, polemical continental art; non-Academy PRB aesthetic standards
non-RA
evaluative, definitive Direct comparison to early PRB.
1875-05-01 Academy Water-Colour Institute, second notice art critical landscapes
watercolor
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Brief notice.
1875-05-15 Academy Royal Academy, second notice art critical, polemical RA exhibition
historical & general subjects
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Albert Moore "fatuity of praise"
Prince of Wales, "led like asses."
1875-05-22 Academy Royal Academy, third notice art critical RA domestic and general subjects PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Cheyne Walk Circle
Millais, foreign schools..
1875-05-22 Academy Society of French Art exhibition art critical sub-std art
patronage
uninformed market
aesthetic standards evaluative Poor art + uninformed buyers = loss for good art. Cheyne Walk cir.
1875-05-29 Academy Society of French Artists, second notice art critical exhibition
analysis
critique
commentary
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Tadema reference x 3 members Cheyne Walk circle.
1875-05-29 Academy Water-Colour Society, second notice art critical Water-Colour Society
landscapes
animals
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative
1875-06-05 Academy Royal Academy, fourth notice art critical exhibition
analysis
critique
commentary
RA exhibition
relative merit
evaluative
1875-06-12 Academy Goupil's "gallery" art critical, polemical Goupil
"fashionable art;" low-merit art
PRB aesthetic standards definitive, evaluative Debunk "paid" exhibit
def. "fashionable" works .
1875-06-12 Academy WMR memorializes Walker art historical Walker memorialized Comparative merit of Walker's work epideictic def. naturalness in art.
1875-06-19 Academy Royal Academy, fifth notice art critical portraits & animals RA 1875
PRB artists
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative PRB exemplified stds.
hanging problems w/RA.
1875-06-26 Academy The International Exhibition art critical, polemical "worthless" exhib.
illegitimate means
$ v. art
classical aesthetic standards evaluative, definitive Strongest condemnation
art of "illegitimate means."
1875-07-03 Academy Royal Academy, sixth notice art critical landscapes
"Hook-scapes"
poetic imagery
PRB aesthetic standards
poetic imagery
evaluative "Landscape description seldom an attractive operation."
1875-07-10 Academy WMR visits La Maison Leys, Antwerp art historical Baron Ley's home
artwork
bio.
frescoes
Tour of Maison Leys
Antwerp
definitive Peripatetic
physicality, narration.
1875-07-17 Academy Royal Academy, final notice art critical, educational etch/draw/sculpture/architecture RA PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, deliberative First purpose, good art, not good price. "Sterling art for sterling coin"
1875-07-31 Academy Madox-Brown's "King Lear" art
lit
critical, polemical Brown
Lear
intertextuality: art
lit
drama
dramatic
poetic
aesthetic value
definitive, evaluative Intertextuality: art-lit-drama
RA type degrade
Cheyne Walk Circle.
1875-10-03 Academy Dudley Gallery, first notice art critical, polemical Dudley
oils
Whistler
Watts
Hughes
PRB aesthetic standards
past exhibs.
evaluative Whistler noted as "leading exhibitor of the year."
1875-10-09 Academy Royal Academy Photo Album art critical, polemical RA Album
photographed art
problems
results
appropriateness
fairness
evaluative First WMR re: photography
PRB best of year vs. RA.
1875-11-06 Academy Dudley Gallery, second notice art critical Dudley
landscapes
figures
animals
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Leslie rebuke for $ painting.
1875-11-13 Academy Frere collection art critical Frere collection
Agnew
Waterloo Place
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Cites critical "over-praising" of Frere
uninformed patronage.
1875-11-27 Academy Society of French Artists exhibition art critical Soc. French artists
figures
landscapes
flowers
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Whistler prominent.
1875-12-04 Academy WMR memorializes Alfred Boyd Houghton art journalistic, critical Houghton obituary/memorial lifetime achievement
rank
epideictic
1875-12-04 Musical W. WMR presents new evidence re: Shelley murder literature journalistic, historical Shelley?s death
murder
evidence
confession.
letter from Trelawney's daughter definitive WMR cites this letter in later lectures/essays.
1875-12-04 Academy WMR reconstructs Shelley's drowning literature historical, journalistic, educational Shelley's death
murder
evidence
multiple sources
witness
confession
definitive WMR cites this letter in later lectures/essays.
1875-12-11 Academy Water Colour Institute art critical water-colour
achievement
merit
value
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Part 1
landscapes reserved for part 2
"like DGR" reference.
1875-12-18 Academy Society of British Artists exhibition art critical comparative value
accomplishment
merit
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Part 1 of 2
PRB comp., Japanese-mania.
1875-12-25 Academy Brit. Artists & Watercolour Inst./Soc. Brit. Artists art critical wrap up 2 other reviews of 2 groups/exh. PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Female painters reviewed on par
combo review
Shelley.
1876-01-29 Academy Obit. Of Sir Geo. Harvey, Royal Scottish Acad. Pres. art journalistic Harvey
Scottish Academy pres.
successor
historical fact epideictic, deliberative Recommends Paton as successor.
1876-02-05 Academy Dudley Gallery art critical, polemical Dudley
mediocre exhibition
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Only "a respectable mediocrity."
1876-02-12 Academy Dudley Gallery, second notice art critical Dudley
landscapes
figures
animals
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1876-02-26 Academy Pinwell Exhibition art critical Pinwell Exhibition and memorial PRB aesthetic standards
quality
evaluative "Good qualities as a person, but not as a body of work."
1876-03-11 Academy Blake exhibit at Burlington Club art critical Blake
exhibition
Burlington Club
classical aesthetic standards evaluative, definitive Swinburne's "Blake" referenced.
1876-03-25 Academy Benjamin Robert Haydon memoir art
lit
critical, polemical, historical Haydon's life
letters
associations
merit
ill humor
failures
evaluative, definitive Position piece: Brit valuation of art
RA fails.
1876-03-01 Macmillan's How W.S. Bell sets the poetic standard since Byron literature critical Byronic
Shelleyan poetics; poetics and art
aesthetic value
success
evaluative, definitive Ref. letters 31 May 75: right of remonstrance
intent 23 Aug 75.
1876-04-01 Academy French Gallery art critical Fr. Exhib.; Salon 1875
aesthetic imagery
PRB aesthetic standards
value
evaluative Strict school adherence, "homage to genius"
1876-04-01 Academy WMR reviews Hake's "New Symbols" poetry collection literature critical, educational Hake
"New Symbols"
poetic imagery
met.
poetic theory
aesthetic imagery
evaluative, definitive Reader authority
imagination and invention, symbolism.
1876-04-08 Academy Society of British Artists, first notice art critical landscapes
exhibit
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Some exhibitors dissuaded or hung inconspicuously.
1876-04-08 Academy WMR refutes Hayden literature critical, polemical WMR claims Hayden Casanova incorrect Knowledge of Italian rebuttal ". . . absolute gibberish."
1876-04-15 Athenaeum WMR rebuts Watts art
lit
journalistic 3 points re: Bailey's "Festus" dates
editions
facts.
rebuttal, definitive
1876-04-15 Academy WMR corrects Scott's Blake catalogue art
lit
critical Scott
Blake catalogue
corrections
firsthand knowledge definitive Lee
1876-04-22 Academy French Gallery, second notice art critical French Gallery
other schools; modishness
PRB aesthetics
relative merit
evaluative "newfangled modishness" suited to "full pocketbooks, empty heads"
1876-04-29 Academy Society of British Artists, second notice art critical Soc. Brit. Art.
figures
landscapes
water-c.
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Intertextuality: Tennyson x 2.
1876-05-06 Academy King Street Galleries exhibit art critical, polemical dealer's collection
British & Foreign art
PRB aesthics
relative merit
evaluative, definitive dealer's collection, artists' risk
ordinary.
1876-05-13 Academy Royal Academy, second notice art critical, journalistic RA exhib.
figures
oriental
PRB aesthetic standards
relative merit
evaluative Extensive commentary: fault-finding, sub-standard.
1876-05-20 Academy Water-Colour Society, second notice art critical water-colours
landscapes
PRB aesthetic standards
relative merit
evaluative Carlyle, Tennyson
exhibit an "agreeable mediocrity."
1876-05-27 Academy Royal Academy, third notice art critical domestic
landscape
portrait
RA
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative 3 categories for portraits
Millais criticism.
1876-06-01 Academy Goupil's "gallery" art critical, polemical Goupil's commercialism PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, definitive "Epoch of nouveaue riche"
Fortuny, Gerome.
1876-06-03 Academy Royal Academy, fourth notice art critical Water-colour
Animal
Etch/Engr
Sculpture
PRB aesthetics
comparative merit
evaluative PRB artists, sculpture = highlight of exhibition.
1876-06-10 Academy Date of Keats's death literature journalistic Mrs. Shelley/Shelley "misdemeanant" facts definitive Shelley vague, Mrs. Shelley mistaken
WMR mislead.
1876-06-17 Academy Black-and-White Exhibition art critical B&W
drawings
etching
engraving
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Gilchrist-Blake-Dadd reference.
1876-06-17 Academy The Mignot Collection art critical, memorial Mignot
memorial
artistic merit
relative accomplishment
definitive, epideictic American landscaper died at 39, "could have used more experience."
1876-06-24 Academy Landseer's Indian Views and Sketches art critical, journalistic art from India
Geo. Landseer
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, definitive Distinguishes between prince of Wales' travel & exhib.
1876-07-01 Academy Black-and-White Exhibition, second notice art critical drawings
etchings
black-and-white
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1876-07-22 Academy Oppermann biography of Sculptor Ernst Rietschel art
lit
journalistic review/present bio translation
accuracy
merit
definitive
1876-10-28 Examiner WMR defends his Shelley edits from Forman literature critical, historical, polemical WMR Shelley edits
Examiner
Forman
WMR editorial standards rebuttal, definitive 3 xref
see also WMR reviews Forman 77.10.13.
1876-11-11 Academy The French Gallery art critical, polemical French Gallery
bad painting
PRB aesthetic standard evaluative Works down to the "decidedly stupid"
Long "Lame Ducks."
1876-11-18 Academy Pictures in the Haymarket art critical Tooth
McLean
Coleman
Millais
PRB aesthetic standards
relative merit
evaluative 170 works.
1876-11-25 Academy Mr. Deschamps' Gallery, second notice art critical Deschamps' figures
landscapes
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1876-12-02 Academy Society of British Artists, second notice art critical landscapes
figures
still-lifes
watercolors
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative "Carlyean countenance."
1876-12-16 Academy The Water-Colour Society art critical 15th Winter Exhib. Of Sketches & Studies PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative ". . . a good deal to like, and not much to denounce."
1876-12-23 Academy The Water-Colour Society, second notice art critical single figs.
landscape
water-colours
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Mrs. Allingham one of few females who can do any art medium .
1877-01-06 Academy The Water-Colour Institute art critical water-colour
figures
landscapes
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, definitive WMR explains intellectual-dramatic link vs. Linton.
1877-01-20 Academy WMR reviews Castelar's "Byron & Sketches" literature critical, historical Castelar
Byron sketch
others
English writing standard
facts
evaluative Errors
no translator could make this read English.
1877-02-10 Academy Dudley Gallery, first notice art critical Dudley
figures
landscapes
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative
1877-02-24 Academy Dudley Gallery, second notice art critical Dudley
figures
landscapes
animals
PRB aesthetic standards definitive Mostly listings, little analysis.
1877-03-17 Academy Suffolk Street Gallery art critical Suffolk Street
landscape
figures
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative ". . . a photographic air of sudden, spontaneous truth."
1877-03-24 Academy Suffolk Street Gallery, second notice art critical Suffolk Street
landscape
figures
PRB aesthetics
relative merit
evaluative Hanging gripe.
1877-04-07 Academy Continental Exhibition art critical, polemical Continental
Fortuny school
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Fortuny school "must always be distasteful . . ."
1877-04-21 Academy Continental Exhibition, second notice art critical, polemical Continental
French
German
Spanish
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative, definitive "Repulsive, ugly" vogue caricaturing of Catholic clergy.
1877-04-28 Academy Messrs. Goupil's Gallery art critical, polemical foreign pictures
Fortuny
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Fortuny school "flawed"
Goupils "speculators."
1877-05-05 Academy Grosvenor Gallery exhibition art critical, polemical Grosvenor
d?cor
exhibit
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, definitive Extended physical description of gallery, hanging gripe.
1877-05-12 Academy Royal Academy, first notice art critical RA exhibition; achievement
relative merit
RA/PRB standards evaluative, definitive 2nd part
1877-05-19 Academy Royal Academy, second notice art critical 1877 RA exhibition
comparative merit
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative RA hanging gripe
Leighton & Millais " prime distinction of 77 RA."
1877-06-02 Academy Royal Academy, third notice art critical RA exhib.
WMR advice to painters
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative, definitive RA, WMR advice to new painters
RA "diploma painting" fault.
1877-06-09 Academy Exhibitions: Miss Thompson, M. Pichio art critical Miss Thompson
Pichio
Hugo
facts
comparative merit
achievement
evaluative, definitive Victor Hugo comment.
1877-06-16 Academy Royal Academy, fourth notice art critical sculpture
water-colours
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Leighton's sculpture best
Coleridge/Poe
Marie Antoinette
1877-07-21 Academy WMR reviews Redgrave's Historical Catalogue art
lit
critical, polemical Kensington exhib. Cat.; RA "henchmen" concise
accurate writing
facts
evaluative, definitive "The cloven feet of the henchmen of the Royal Academy . . ."
1877-10-13 Academy WMR reviews Forman's "Shelley" literature critical, polemical Forman
Shelley
WMR
accurate
authentic
correct editing
evaluative Shelley, see also WMR defends his Shelley from Forman, 1876.10.28.
1877-10-15 Academy WMR reviews Douglas's "Burns" literature critical Burns
notes vs. glossary
7 new works
Clarity
completeness
accuracy
evaluative 7 new works
glossary vs. notes
WBS ref.
1877-11-03 Academy Pictures, British and Foreign, French Gallery art critical Brit. & Foreign
Wilkie
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Shelley verse vs. imagery of Max.
1877-11-24 Academy Society of British Artists art critical, polemical Soc. Brit. Art.
pictures & sketches
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative, deliberative Insight into Soc. membership
artists "damaging"
see also 78.04.06
1877-12-01 Academy Dudley Gallery art critical Dudley
landscapes
figures
sculpture
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Dudley standard as mediocre consistently.
1877-12-08 Academy Water-Colour Society art critical water-colours
figures
landscapes
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Suggests 3 rather than 1 head model for Macbeth.
1877-12-15 Academy Water-Colour Institute art critical water-colours
figures
landscapes
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1877-12-29 Academy Water Colour Society, second notice art critical landscapes PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Primacy of sentiment
catalog.
1878-01-05 Academy Death of Gustave Courbet art historical Courbet memorialized historical perspective
achievement
epideictic ". . . acted more to get rid of an obnoxious piece of bad art."
1878-01-19 Academy WMR discounts Smith's Shelley biography literature critical, historical, polemical Shelley bio.
Smith
Trelawney
facts
historical accounts
evaluative WMR cites 3 levels of error.
1878-02-23 Academy Blake's Jerusalem, Bell-Scott's Blake etchings art critical facsimile Jerusalem
Bell-Scott's etchings
authenticity
effective publication
evaluative, definitive Facsimile & complications, Swinburne ref, see also 1876.03.11.
1878-02-01 University WMR Shelley lecture, part 1 literature critical, historical, educational Shelley's history
events
work
historical & critical accuracy definitive Shelley: 2 part series, for uninformed, Rossetti Reminiscences 2:482
1878-03-09 Academy Dudley Gallery art critical critique
evaluation
comparison
artistic value
authenticity
truth
evaluative, definitive
1878-03-23 Academy Dudley gallery, second notice art critical Dudley
hanging
Stillman
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Mrs. Stillman
hanging gripe.
1878-03-01 University WMR Shelley lecture, part 2 literature historical, educational biography
history
Shelley
education
facts
history
definitive Rossetti Reminiscences 2:482
1878-04-06 Academy Soc. Brit. Art. New gallery/ RA & Grosvenor art critical, polemical new Conduit gallery
RA
Grosvenor
PRB aesthetics evaluative See also Soc. Brit. Artists review 78.11.24
1878-04-13 Academy Messrs. Goupil's Gallery art critical Goupil
continental pictures
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1878-04-20 Academy Water-Colour Institute art critical Water-Colour Institute
birds
landscapes
PRB aesthetic standards
merit
evaluative Linton/Cheyne
1878-05-11 Academy Royal Academy, first notice art critical, polemical uninteresting
bad RA exhibition
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative
1878-05-18 Academy Grosvenor Gallery exhibition art critical, polemical value
effectiveness
authenticity
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative, definitive Aesthetic theory: large PRB/Cheyne contingent as exemplar.
1878-05-25 Academy Royal Academy, second notice art critical quality
comparison
aesthetic accomplishment
authenticity
PRB principles
evaluative, definitive
1878-06-01 Academy Grosvenor Gallery, second notice art critical princess
landscape
figures
sculpture
PRB aesthetics
merit
evaluative Special assessment for Princess Louise.
1878-06-08 Academy Sale of Shelley artifacts and items literature critical, historical Shelley possessions
artifacts
sale
facts
historical accounts
definitive
1878-06-08 Academy Royal Academy, third notice art critical RA
landscapes
figures
animals
PRB aesthetic standards evaluative Millais predominates.
1878-06-15 Academy WMR reviews Trelawney's "Records of Shelley & Byron" literature critical Trelawney
Shelley
Byron
records
accuracy
readability
facts
evaluative, definitive Byron relics mentioned, compares Hogg/Mrs. Shelley/Trelawney
1878-06-22 Academy WMR reviews T. Moore's Prose, Verse Satire, Shelley literature critical, historical literary enquirers
accuracy
literary value
historical & contextual accuracy evaluative
1878-09-07 Athenaeum Correcting line from Dante pub. 8/17/78 literature critical, historical accurate translation language
standards
definitive Responds to August 17, 1878 article.
1880-05-29 Athenaeum Memorializing Seymour Kirkup literature historical Dantesque literature
expert
obituary
encomium epideictic Reminiscences 2: sofa, Trelawney
Letters 3x.
1880-11-13 Athenaeum WMR critical dispute with Quilter literature polemical, critical dispute
correction
challenge
facts according to WMR rebuttal, definitive Also Nov MacMillan's: WMR re: DGR and Swinburne
1880-11-01 Macmillan's WMR refutes Quilter/Quilter makes his point literature polemical rebuttal
critique
disagreement
feud
facts according to WMR rebuttal, definitive Letters, Athenaeum Nov 13, 1880.
1881-01-01 Mag. of Art WMR history of PRB movement art historical, educational PRB history
first-person
facts
history
definitive PRB foundational, essential WMR history of PRB
1881-05-07 Athenaeum WMR original poem for daughter turning 5 literature commemoration poetic theory epideictic original poem by WMR upon daughter reaching census age.
1881-06-01 Art Journal Madox Brown's frescoes in Manchester art critical, educational frescos
Manchester
technique
aesthetic success
execution
authenticity
evaluative, definitive Letters, Reminiscences 1&2, civic art, national artists.
1882-04-29 Athenaeum Clarify DGR exhibition plans art journalistic clarify DGR exhibition plans facts
changes
definitive Letters: "leave path open for R.A."
1882-05-06 Athenaeum Clarify term in Chaucer's "Eclympasteyre" literature critical theory
translation
language derivative
French definitive
1882-07-15 Athenaeum WMR Trelawney journal part 1 literature historical, educational Trelawney and Shelley; WMR visits journal entries definitive Shelley cremation
WMR receives artifact.
1882-07-29 Athenaeum WMR Trelawney journal part 2 literature historical, educational Trelawney and Shelley; WMR visits journal entries definitive
1882-08-05 Athenaeum WMR Trelawney journal part 3 literature historical, educational Trelawney and Shelley; WMR visits journal entries definitive
1883-01-20 Athenaeum Correct error re: DGR "Found" in RA guide art critical, historical RA guide error
DGR "Found"
facts
according to WMR
definitive, rebuttal WMR says RA has wrong source.
1884-03-10 Athenaeum Clarify copyright claim literature critical Tibbs copyright claim re: WMR historical accuracy
first-person ref.
definitive, rebuttal
1884-05-01 Art Journal Notes on DGR & works, part 1 art historical, critical, educational DGR
works
context
history
achievement
facts
history
definitive, evaluative "Task falls to his brother . . ."
1884-06-01 Art Journal Notes on DGR & works, part 2 art historical, critical, educational DGR
works
context
history
achievement
facts
history
definitive, evaluative Debunks DGR myths.
1886-02-13 Athenaeum Shelley Society Mtg. notice & member solicitation literature journalistic, educational Shelley Society news facts
news
definitive, deliberative Shelley: recruiting for Shelley Society.
1886-07-01 Art Journal Notes on DGR & works, part 3 art critical, historical, educational DGR
works
context
history
achievement
facts
history
definitive, evaluative Final installment
deathbed.
1889-01-20 Mag. of Art Portraits of DGR, part 2 art critical, historical, educational DGR portraits 1853-82 historical context
achievement
definitive, evaluative context, Carroll
photography.
1889-01-30 Mag. of Art Portraits of DGR, part 3 art critical, historical, educational DGR photos
deathbed
tributes
historical context
memorial
definitive, evaluative context, Carroll
photography
deathbed of DGR.
1889-01-01 Mag. of Art Portraits of DGR, part 1 art critical, historical, educational DGR
works
context
history
achievement
historical context
memorial
definitive, evaluative Brotherly admiration and tribute.
1889-04-01 Hobby H. Ford Madox Brown's paintings art critical, educational Brown
PRB standards
poetic effect
image
PRB standards
aesthetic value
definitive, evaluative Brown as exemplar of PRB precepts in successful execution.
1890-01-20 Mag. of Art Portraits of Browning, part 2 art
lit
historical, educational, critical Browning bio. via history w/portraits first-person recall
portraits
definitive
1890-01-30 Mag. of Art Portraits of Browning, part 3 art
lit
historical, educational, critical Browning bio. via history w/portraits first-person recall
portraits
definitive
1890-01-01 Mag. of Art Portraits of Browning, part 1 art
lit
historical, educational, critical Browning bio. via history w/portraits first-person recall
portraits
definitive
1890-05-01 Review WMR comments for Moore's "Browning" literature historical Browning history
duality
vision
first-person recall definitive Rossetti validates and extends Moore's point on vision.
1891-03-28 Athenaeum WMR discovers ref. to Blake in Galt ed. Book literature historical, critical, educational Browning ref. in Galt that Gilchrest missed text definitive Blake "art for its own sweet sake.".
1892-12-24 Academy WMR rebuts Scott's claims re: DGR art historical, polemical Scott allegations
WMR refutation
historical accuracy
first-person ref.
rebuttal, definitive
1895-08-03 Athenaeum Rebut announced CR edition, announce gift book literature historical incorrect Athenaeum ref; news facts rebuttal Gift book edited by Olivia Rossetti.
1895-11-16 Athenaeum Correct paper error re: DGR "Hand and Soul" literature historical incorrect newspaper reference facts
history
rebuttal Story previously pub. in "The Germ" & The Fortnightly Review.
1898-05-01 Art Journal WMR surveys a PRB collection art critical, historical PRB art collected; collector
works
facts evaluative, definitive Leatheart's collection, "largest undispersed PRB collection."
1900-12-01 Athenaeum WMR editorial error art critical, historical DGR scraps; prev. pub; WMR error facts
discovery
definitive WMR pub. DGR scrap in Pall Mall Gazette as un-pub. in error
1904-01-01 Mag. of Art Clarify Marillier's "Record of DGR" art critical, historical, polemical Marillier
correction
DGR
facts
history
accuracy
rebuttal, definitive Multiple corrections to Marillier
favorable review.
1904-05-14 Athenaeum WMR answer Symons query on Shelley reference literature historical Shelley error; Browning-WMR emendation Browning-WMR letter
Shelley error
definitive Shelley: Tower of Famine, Shelley error, WMR-Browning correct
1904-07-02 Athenaeum WMR errors re: Mrs. Ruskin literature critical, historical New info debunks previous conversation facts
new information
definitive Previous conversations re: Mrs. Ruskin prove inaccurate.
1905-04-15 Athenaeum WMR corrects attribution re: F.M. Brown & "Leaves" art critical, polemical Incorrect attribution re: "Autumn Leaves" personal knowledge
family
definitive
1907-10-26 Athenaeum WMR rebuts Grierson re: Shelley edit literature critical, historical WMR clarifies Shelley edit; bio details. facts
historical accounts
rebuttal, definitive Shelley edit.
1909-01-23 Athenaeum Notice of British art & Ruskin memorial in Venice art
lit
journalistic, educational Venice Brit art exhibit; Ruskin memorial facts
new information
definitive
1909-06-01 Bookman WMR memorializes Swinburne literature critical, historical, educational Swinburne memorialized personal remembrance
50 years
epideictic, definitive One of 12 critics memorializing Swinburne.
1909-10-01 Bookman WMR retrospective of Ruskin art
lit
critical WMR overview/retrospective re: Ruskin Ruskin's work
WMR appraisal
definitive, evaluative One of 14 artists and critics offering opinions in essay.