An Outline of English Painting [antikvár]

PREFACE In 1933 I wrote an Outline of English Painting designed as a short informal guide to the 1934 Exhibition of British Art at Burlington House. As the essay was written for that special purpose the particular pictures named were mainly those which had been selected for the exhibition. This, though an advantage for readers at the time, became a disadvantage to readers in later years; and so when I was invited to prepare a new edition, I decided to recast the essay on different lines and to make it at once an introduction to and, as far as might be, an addition to my larger book English Painting to which it is now offered as a companion. As my publishers have allowed me thirty-two monochrome plates and a coloured frontispiece I have chosen pictures to supplement the two hundred and six illustrations in the other book. In the old Outline the period discussed was nominally from Hogarth's day to the end of the pre-Raphaelite movement; but my comments went over the borders at both ends. In this new Outline the borders are further extended to bring the survey to work produced during the second war. I am much indebted to the public and private owners of the pictures reproduced who have supplied me with photographs or helped me to procure them. London, 1946