Lyles, Anne

The great age of British watercolours, 1750-1880 by Andrew Wilton ( Book )
6 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 503 libraries worldwide
"The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of expression for some of the Romantic era's greatest artists, among them Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. The painters of the next generation were no less ambitious, and the range of subject-matter and technical inventiveness that was sustained for much of the Victorian period was to set a standard in watercolour painting that was without equal abroad." "In this magnificently illustrated survey of the great age of British watercolours, Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles trace the development of attitudes to landscape and to the human figure in the landscape from 1750 to 1880. They show how once the traditional pen and ink drawing and its augmented washes of colour had been abandoned in order to paint directly in watercolours without pen outlines, the way was open for the powerful Romantic landscapes of the following decade and beyond, many of which were painted in the wild mountainous regions of Wales and Scotland." "During the nineteenth century, as the gilt-framed exhibition watercolour began to challenge the long-established oil painting in terms of size and in brilliance of colour and effect, the range of subject-matter was broadened to

Colour into line : Turner and the art of engraving by Anne Lyles ( Book )
5 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 300 libraries worldwide

Thomas Girtin : the art of watercolour by Greg Smith ( Book )
5 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 290 libraries worldwide

Constable : the great landscapes ( Book )
8 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 288 libraries worldwide

Turner: the fifth decade : watercolurs 1830-1840 by Anne Lyles ( Book )
4 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 246 libraries worldwide

Young Turner : early work to 1800 : watercolours and drawings from the Turner Bequest, 1787-1800 by Tate Gallery ( Book )
3 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 241 libraries worldwide

Romantic landscape : the Norwich school of painters by David Blayney Brown ( Book )
4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 239 libraries worldwide

Turner and natural history : the Farnley project by Anne Lyles ( Book )
5 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 212 libraries worldwide

Constable portraits : the painter & his circle by Martin Gayford ( Book )
6 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 175 libraries worldwide

British watercolours from the Oppé collection : with a selection of drawings and oil sketches by Tate Gallery ( Book )
3 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 166 libraries worldwide