Novelist John Ruskin

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John Ruskin

Living place: England

Birthday: 8-2-1819

Global rank: #66679

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Who is Novelist John Ruskin?
A leading English art critic of the Victorian era, he is known for works such as Modern Painter (1843) and The Seven Lamps Architecture (1849). He founded the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford University in 1869.
He was an active philanthropist, notable social thinker, skilled watercolorist, draftsman, and patron of the arts. .
 
 

Young / Before famous

While traveling with his privileged family as a young boy, he wrote in several notebooks and notebooks and sketched and painted many landscapes, maps, and buildings. He attended Oxford University starting in 1836.

Family life info

He married Euphemia Chalmers Gray in 1828. The marriage was annulled in 1897.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist John Ruskin?
He criticized the music of Ludwig Van Beethoven.

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When was Novelist John Ruskin born?
John Ruskin was born in 8-2-1819, death year is , at the age of 205.
Where is Novelist John Ruskin's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
John Ruskin was born in England. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. John Ruskin's global rank is 66679 and whose rank is 655 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1819 and 8-2

Birthday John Ruskin (8-2) in history

  • Day 8-2 year 1587: Queen Mary of Scotland was beheaded for treason. Her son, King James VI of Scotland, calmly accepted his mother's execution.
  • Day 8-2 year 1693: The founding date of William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the second oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth oldest among English-speaking countries.
  • Day 8-2 year 1870: The National Weather Service was established under the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
  • Day 8-2 year 1904: The Russo-Japanese war began when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur in northeast China.
  • Day 8-2 year 1915: D. W. Griffith's controversial epic, The Birth of a Nation premiered in Los Angeles.
  • Day 8-2 year 1924: The gas chamber was used for the first time as a method of execution in the United States. Gangster Gee Jon was put to death at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.
  • Day 8-2 year 1960: The payola (pay for broadcast airplay) hearings opened in the U.S. House of Representatives. Dick Clark would testify in April.
  • Day 8-2 year 1980: President Jimmy Carter revealed his plan to reinstate selective service draft registration.
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