John Ruskin, pictured with William Bell Scott and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 

John Ruskin - Abbeville 1852

Ink and wash and pencil heightened with white on buff coloured paper

John Ruskin

“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.”

—	John Ruskin

John Ruskin, Kingfisher, 1871

Sir Max Beerbohm Miss Cornforth: 'Oh, very pleased to meet Mr Ruskin, I'm sure' 1916

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/beerbohm-miss-cornforth-oh-very-pleased-to-meet-mr-ruskin-im-sure-a01042/text-display-caption

John Ruskin: Ferns on a Rock, 1875

Trees Study, perhaps at Ambleside, 1847 John Ruskin

John Ruskin photographed by Frederick Hollyer, 1894.

John Ruskin photographed by Frederick Hollyer, 1894. The woman in the third photography is his cousin, Joan Ruskin.

John Ruskin, The North West Porch of St Marks, Venice 1877

pencil, watercolour, and bodycolour, 64.8 x 77 cm

The £7m portrait that destroyed John Ruskin's marriage returns to Oxford

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/10431537.The___7m_portrait_that_destroyed_John_Ruskin_s_marriage_returns_to_Oxford/

John Ruskin with members of his household by John McClelland February 14th, 1895

John Ruskin's marriage: what really happened

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/29/ruskin-effie-marriage-inconvenience-brownell

Frederigo Cornaro's house in Venice, now Ca'Loredan

http://surprisedbytime.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/lady-of-nauplion.html

St Mark's 1877

http://bourgeoissurrender.blogspot.co.uk/2008_10_01_archive.html

Self portrait at 55; 1874

Rose la Touche by Ruskin

Watercolour c. 1862

Effie in 1850 by Ruskin

Christ Church Cathedral from Tom Quad

John Ruskin aged three and a half

by James Northcote

Coast Scene near Dunbar 1847

Ruskin executed this watercolour on a visit to Dunbar. He stayed in the town for a few days before visiting William Macdonald, a young family friend, in Pertshire. Ruskin wrote of making this study in his diary noting that he had 'had a happy day, drawing by the seashore' (Diary, 21 August, 1847). The artist worked from close observation. His immediate interest was to record, rather than compose a picture. This can be seen in the detailed way he has drawn the rocks, the seaweed and the movement of the water.