"The purpose of this book is to describe the aims and achievements of the Impressionist movement and to illustrate them in a magnificent series of color plates. It shows how, within the framework of the movement, each artist applied his own interpretations of these aims to landscape, portraiture, and still life, employing new technical methods as he discovered them."--

"This is the final volume in a trilogy about the artistic movements of the Victorian era. I would gladly read the others; Mr. Gaunt writes very engagingly of the art world using humor yet removes himself from making overly judgmental statements which would distract the reader."--Goodreads

"George Stubbs (1724-1806), one of the great masters of British art, remains unsurpassed as a painter of animals (particularly horses), of people and landscapes. Strangely, his first love was anatomy. His classic study, the Anatomy of the Horse, was a masterpiece of natural history and won him a European reputation. In its precision, his art reflects his scientific talent; but it is much more: it has a classic aura--regal, calm, the work of a virtuoso...