The greatest arid most influential English art critic of the nineteenth century, Ruskin was the first to publicly champion the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, through the columns of 'The Times'. By 1872-3, when this photo was taken, his great books were all behind him - 'Modern Painters', 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture', 'Stones of Venice' and 'Unto this Last'. He moved to Brantwood, at Coniston, this year and soon fell prey to the attacks of insanity which visited him periodically for the rest of his life. He died at Brantwood in 1900, and is buried there, having refused the offer of a grave in Westminster Abbey.