Patrick Bade
Victorian Painting: The Royal Academy
Summary
A grand overview of the more popular Victorian painters and their submissions to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, held every year since 1769, focusing on works from artists like William Powers Frith, John Everett Millais, Abraham Solomon, and more.
Patrick Bade
Patrick Bade is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. He studied at UCL and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was a senior lecturer at Christie’s Education for many years and has worked for the Art Fund, Royal Opera House, National Gallery, and V&A. He has published on 19th- and early 20th-century paintings and historical vocal recordings. His latest book is Music Wars: 1937–1945.
I don’t know actually, but it’s going to have to be something really, really powerful isn’t it, to impact on the steel?
In some cases, certainly I think due to sexual repression. But on the other hand, you could say that sometimes sexual repression causes creativity to take new forms. I think that’s the case with the Pre-Raphaelites that I’m going to be talking about next time.