Palgrave, Francis T[urner]

Date born:  1824

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Date died:  1897

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Critic for the Saturday Review and art author.  A converted Jew, he was zealously Protestant.  Palgrave formed a circle of British esthetes, led by Prince Albert (1819-1861), with Henry Drummond (1786-1860) and Charles Eastlake (q.v.) rejecting the esthetics of Joshua Reynold's Academy and the perceived Roman Catholic influence of the high renaissance in favor of the 'early masters.'  Palgrave, the theorist of this circled, admired the art of antiquity and the early renaissance and viewed the late renaissance artists as neo-pagans.  With Ruskin, he disparaged the industrial revolution and the art that seemed to support it.

Home Country:   United Kingdom

Sources:  Palgrave, Francis Turner, and Palgrave, Gwenllian Florence. Francis Turner Palgrave: his Journals and Memories of his Life. New York: Longmans, Green, 1899; Steegman, John.  "Lord Lindsay's History of Christian Art."  Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 10 (1947): 123-24;

Bibliography:  Essays on Art. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867; "Essay on the First Century of Italian Engraving," in Kugler, Franz.  Handbook of Painting: The Italian Schools. London: J. Murray, 1855, pp. 517-556.