This article is about the art critic, John Ruskin. For the painting of John Ruskin by Millais, see John Ruskin (painting).
John Ruskin
John Ruskin 1863.jpg
John Ruskin in 1863
Born 8 February 1819
54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London, England
Died 20 January 1900 (aged 80)
Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, England
Occupation Writer, art critic, draughtsman, watercolourist, social thinker, philanthropist
Citizenship English
Alma mater Christ Church, University of Oxford
King's College London
Period Victorian era
Notable works Modern Painters 5 vols. (1843–60), The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), The Stones of Venice 3 vols. (1851–53), Unto This Last (1860, 1862), Fors Clavigera (1871–84), Praeterita 3 vols. (1885–89).
Spouse Euphemia Chalmers Gray (1828–1897) (marriage annulled)
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied.