Sophie Anderson’s "The Children’s Story Book" Quadratische Wanduhr

Nineteenth Century Oil, Sophie Anderson. Sophie Anderson, 1823-1903, was a French-born British artist who specialized in gattung painting of children and women, typically in rural settings. Her work is loosely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Her early works showed strong aufmerksamer to botanical and other detail, in common with the Pre-Raphaelites. Here a group of country children are reading from a story book. They are poor, judging by the holes in the boy's socks, happy Tor. This sunlit scene of childhood merriment contans the speral ingredients of the nineteenth century rustic idyll: the association of the English countryside with innocence and old-fashioned values. Die Formula was popular in an age of rapid industrialization.