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  VICTORIAN ARTISTS

  Art and artists were very important in the Victorian era. Painting in the early years of Victoria’s reign was dominated by the Royal Academy of Arts and by the theories of its first president, Joshua Reynolds.

  Reynolds and the academy were strongly influenced by the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael, and believed that it was the role of an artist to make the subject of their work appear as noble and idealized as possible.

  When Victoria came to the throne, the most famous living British artist was J. M. W. Turner. He painted landscape watercolours. He left behind over 2,000 paintings and 19,000 drawings and sketches.

  He is sometimes referred to as ‘the painter of light’ and is buried in St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

  In 1848 three students at the Royal Academy, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The PRB rejected the ideas of Joshua Reynolds, and believed it was important to paint from imagination to show things as they most likely would have been, not in the way that would appear most attractive.

  HOW TO MAKE A SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT

  You will need:

  A photograph of your head and shoulders taken from the side (in profile)

  Pencil

  Black card

  White or coloured card for the background

  Glue

  Scissors

  Frame

  1. Take a photograph from the side of your head and shoulders and print out the photo onto ordinary paper.

  2. Using scissors, carefully cut around the person – you may need to ask a grown-up for help.

  3. Place the cut-out onto some black paper or card and draw around it using the pencil.

  4. Cut the silhouette portrait out of the black card.

  5. Cut a piece of coloured card in an oval shape so that the black cut-out fits comfortably in the centre and glue in place. You can glue this oval onto a slightly larger oval of a different colour if you like.

  6. Cut a piece of white or coloured card to fit the frame and stick your portrait onto the centre of it.

  7. Now frame your portrait! If you don’t have a frame to use, you could make one out of card.

  Jacqueline has written many other wonderful stories inspired by the Victorian era – have you read them all?

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  First published RHCP Digital, 2018

  This ebook published 2018

  Text copyright © Jacqueline Wilson, 2018

  Illustrations copyright © Nick Sharratt, 2018

  Cover illustration copyright © Nick Sharratt, 2018

  The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted

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  ISBN: 978-1-448-19807-8

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