Victorian painting / Lionel Lambourne.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 504-505) and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- The Victorian Art Establishment -- The Fresco Revival: Mural Painting -- The Good and the Great: Portrait Painting -- Oils Versus Watercolours: Landscape Painting -- The Narrative Impulse: Genre Painting -- 'Virtual Reality': The Panorama -- Childhood and Sentiment -- Fairy Painting -- Sporting and Animal Painting -- The Pre-Raphaelites -- All Human Life is Here: Cross-Sections of Society -- The Nude and Classicism -- Women Artists -- Sombre Schools of Art: Social Realism -- Parting: Emigration and War -- The Frailer Sex and the Fallen Woman -- A Transatlantic Exchange -- Colonial Ties: Painters in a Wider World -- Aesthetes and Symbolists: The Last Romantics -- Impressionism in Britain -- The End of an Era -- Select Bibliography -- Index.