Review: Rising Splendour - Fred Appleyard: From the Royal Academy to the Itchen Valley
It isn't often that I go into an exhibition without being able to visualise or name the artist's work. That is not a flex on my part, but after a few years of going to as many Victorian art exhibitions as I can, I have seen a fair selection of artists who are in public collection, and obviously writing this nonsense over the last decade has meant we have seen images from quite a bit of what the 19th century had to offer. As it turns out, a colleague of mine asked me a few years back if I knew ...