Coal Merchant's House in Market Street, Croydon

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Artist: John Ruskin
Date: 1835
Location: Birmingham Museums Trust

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THE ARTIST

John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a Victorian polymath whose passionate defense of J.M.W. Turner's "truth to nature" profoundly shaped 19th-century art and thought.

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