The master painters of Britain
The Master Painters of Britain is a 1890 London art book by Gleeson White, published by Caxton, written for readers interested in British painting and its leading artists. Its plates are rotated black-and-white reproductions of oil paintings, showing crowded genre scenes of interiors, figures in period dress and rural outdoor groups. A designer might take from them the dense compositional layering of many figures, the dark tonal range and the tight framing typical of Victorian painting reproductions.
