Artist: John Brett (1831 - 1902)
Nationality: English
Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Media: Painting
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Biography:
John Brett painted mostly seascapes and coastal scenes that were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and John Ruskin. His early paintings were noted for their skilled and elaborate detail. Consequently, later in Brett’s career, his output decreased and he died practically unknown.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Kynance, 1888 John Brett (British, 1830-1902)Oil on canvas; 7 x 14 1/8 in. (17.8 x
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Albert Flamen (Flamand), (Brett), 17th century
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John Brett - Caernarvon 1875 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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John Brett - Landscape (1852) 1852 oil on millboard The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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John Brett - Southern Coast of Guernsey 1875 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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John Brett - Rocky coast scene (1872) 1872 oil on millboard The Fitzwilliam Museum British
Museum of Fine Arts -
Tetradrachm with head of deified Alexander the Great Coin Greek Hellenistic Period, After 196 B.C.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Kay, John Campbell of Blythewood, 1784
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John Steuart Curry - John Brown 1938 Lithograph Arkansas Arts Center American
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John Singleton Copley - John Greene c. 1769 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. John Greene 1769 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - John Gray 1766 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Vanderlyn - John Sudam 1829-1830 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Wollaston - John Stevens c. 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
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John Smibert, John Nelson, 1732
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John Johnston - John Peck c. 1795 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Durand - Mrs. John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Durand - John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Hoppner - John Granville 1790-95 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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John Smibert - Mrs. John Pitts 1735 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Frazee - John Marshall 1834-35 marble Boston Athenaeum American
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Charles Willson Peale - Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr. 1790 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Smith, Sir John Percival Bart, 1704
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John Smith, John Duke of Marlborough, 1705
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John Stuart Curry, John Brown, 1939
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John B. Neagle, William Helmuth (or John Henry Helmuth), 1834
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John Singleton Copley - Portrait of John Scollay 1764 black and white chal Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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John R. Johnston - Mrs. John R. Johnston before 1857 salted paper print f Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - The Honorable John Erving c. 1774 oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man, Said to Be John Durham, ca. 1790 John Barry (British, active
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: artist unknown Title: Tapestry Fragment of Virgin and St. John Date: about 1520 -
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Faber the Younger, St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, 1754
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John Wesley Jarvis - Commodore John Rodgers c. 1814 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Colonel John Montresor c. 1771 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
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John Sartain, John Calvin, 19th century
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John Smith, John Lambert the Elder, (after same), 17th - 18th century
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John Trumbull - John Trumbull 1793 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Hall, King John, Act IV, Scene I, 18th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Doiron Gallery: Profiles: Photo Collage by S. Brett Kaufman
S. Brett Kaufman lives and works in San Francisco. Born in 1967, he grew up and lived in various areas of Los Angeles. He attended California State University at Northridge where he studied business and journalism; yet his true fascination was w...
National Museums and Galleries of Wales: John Brett - A Pre-Raphaelite on the Shores of Wales
John Brett (1831 – 1902) is best known for his painting The Stonebreaker exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858 and Val d’Aosta of 1859. He was an associate in the mid 1850s of Millais and Holman Hunt, both of whom were influential upon his artis...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: ALCHEMY and other transcendental works by Brett Whiteley
The mural was recently described by George Alexander from Contemporary Art Programs at the Art Gallery of New South Wales - Spread over 18 panels Alchemy may be read in any direction as a compressed autobiography in visual terms; a tense psychic c...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: On the Beach: With Brett Whiteley and Fellow Australian Artists
Whiteley’s unique rendering of his own experiences of the beach provides the focus for the exhibition, and is an ideal context in which to explore the reactions of other notable Australian artists to this aspect of national culture. The images te...
Brett Whiteley Studio: Animals and Birds: The Artist's Favorite Theme
Metaphorically an escape into what Whiteley saw as the freedom of the natural world, these works provoked in him both curiosity and a tremendous sense of release. As a child, Whiteley always loved visiting Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney and from a...
South African National Gallery: White Like Me: Brett Murray
Emma Bedford, Head Curator for Iziko Art Collections says: With sculptural cartoons accompanied by satirical text, white is simultaneously the normative paradigm as well as volatile ethnic category. This award-winning artist, variously descr...
Folly: The Myth of Sexual Loss: Karen Brett
The artist advertised for couples and single volunteers aged between 60 and 90 to take part in her project. Her approach incorporated a rigorous and often intimate engagement with the subject, frequently spending a long period of time developing t...
3RD i GALLERY: InterActive Art Works
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NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. at Pfizer Inc. World Headquarters: Contemporary Fine Art by: Corine Borgnet, Brett Chenoweth, Bridget Dearborn, Tim Duch, Yigal Elyadin, Karen Fitzgerald, Robert Martinez and Robin Ross
CORINE BORGNET's painting Alice in Wonderland is a pop surrealist narrative of the timeless fabled journey. Borgnet brings Alice to life in a sculptural piece specially created for the exhibit. BRETT CHENWETH sees the colors within his ever-...
Oakville Galleries: Weathervane: Curated by Karen Love
The exhibition features works by Marlene Creates, Paterson Ewen, Rodney Graham, Tania Kitchell, Mark Lewis, Richard Rhodes, Seifollah Samadian, Alan Storey, T & T (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano), Diana Thater, Lawrence Weiner and Chris Welsby. ...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Picnic: A Summer Show - Curated by Andrew Lamprecht
Artists included in the exhibition are Usha Seejarim, Kathryn Smith, Doreen Southwood, Kevin Brand, Matthew Hindley, Ed Young, Christian Nerf, Sanell Aggenbach, Geoff Grundlingh, Zen Marie, Vuyisa Nyamende and Cameron Platter, Brett Murray, and Sv...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Compose Art Gallery: Ruth Thomas Edmond, Clay Bodvin and Brett Culbert
The variety, flavour and impact is extraordinary. For example, with Raw Materials (Still Life in Waiting) #2 a free-floating arrangement of exotic flowers is shown as a 60cm sq inkjet print. Opposite this is a 90cm sq, oil painted, marouflage-pane...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: Shoot: Australian Photography from the Corrigan collection
Shoot! will be an exhibition to challenge ideas about photography and its role in visual arts practice. Gold Coast City Art Gallery Curator, Brett Adlington said, “Photographically the term ‘shoot’ implies an image that is hastily taken, in ...
NSA Gallery: Bitterkomix, i-jusi, Boogie Lights
Bitterkomix is South Africa’s only independent satirical comic magazine. Since its inception in 1992 Bitterkomix has vehemently attacked white South African ideology, in particular that of the Afrikaner. The comic magazine is originally in Afrikaa...
Foundation for the Advancement of Art: Innovation, Substance, Vision: the Future of Art
Perhaps the most pressing issue is the need for contemporary art institutions to look at and examine innovations made by living representational painters and sculptors. Michael Newberry, the director of the Foundation says: "The contemporary...
Association for Visual Arts: Third Cape Town Public Sculpture Competition
A sum of R120 000 from the J.K.Gross Trust has been made available for this competition, the third of its kind for the city. R80 000 has been set aside for the making and installation of the winning piece and R40 000 is the prize money for the win...
Working With Artists: Call for Artists: 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Regional Juried Photography Exhibition
The 2002 juried exhibit resulted in 80 pieces selected out of over 300 entries. The exhibition was very successful for the photographers in the seven state Rocky Mountain region, and the show was well received by the many photographers who entered...
Parsons Exhition Center: Drawing in the Present Tense
This show is based on a series of simple observations about the drawing process. The creative process itself often has its origins in drawing. In this view, drawing comes about from a succession of traces, impulses and sensations that form an end...
Rose Korber at The Bay Hotel: 11th Art Salon at the Bay - New Directions
Included will be familiar names such as Willie Bester, Sam Nhlengethwa, Walter Oltman, Nina Romm, Jenny Stadler, Francine Scialom Greenblatt, Penny Stutterheim, Robert Slingsby, John Kramer, Paul Blomkamp, Louis Jansen van Vuuren and Walter Meyer....
Smart Museum of Art: Critical Mass
* Training: They usually hold degrees from art schools and many also teach or administrate at cultural institutions. * Sensibilities: They pursue an ethical, self-reflective practice and are committed to social engagement. They conside...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: Otherworlds: Images of Fantasy and Fiction
Minister for the Arts Matt Foley said this was the first Queensland Art Gallery exhibition curated and designed specifically for the youth audience to tour Queensland. 'Fantasy, surrealism and science fiction are genres which ...
Association for Visual Arts: Call for Artists: Third Public Sculpture Competition for the City of Cape Town
The site for this competition has been identified as the corner of Shortmarket Street and St George’s Mall, in the center of the city of Cape Town. Entry is open to all, and registration forms (Form A) should reach AVA by 29 June 2002. The maquet...
Para/site Art Space: A Hong Kong - Melbourne Exchange Project 2003: Organisation for Cultural Exchange and Mishap (OCEM)
OCEM is interested in organisation, and not organization as institution. OCEM understands the primacy of artist-initiated activity. The members of Organisation at any point in time will be the organisation. This project has no aims beyond allowing...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa
The new premises at 89 Bree Street (between Shortmarket and Hout Streets) was originally built in 1752. The space is elegant and spacious , with a touch of old world charm about it. The gallery will now be situated on two floors and a roof top gar...
Maria Perides Gallery: Trisha Lambi and Max Lieberman: Oil Paintings
“Light and its effect on form is my inspiration and whilst I don’t particularly aspire to convey a conscious emotion in my work it seems to emerge of its own will,” says Lambi. Lambi was invited to participate in, and represent Australia at...
Ohio Art League: Ohio Art League Annual Spring Juried Exhibition
The show includes a broad and diverse range of media, technique and subject matter, including painting, photography, collage, printmaking, artist’s books, ceramics, glass, sculpture, jewelry, and video. Within those categories viewers will see wor...
Portland Museum of Art: Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection
As a teacher at Freeport High School and Curator of Maine Coast Artists in Rockport, Brown has educated many people about art and has also assembled a phenomenal collection of contemporary prints on a limited budget. Brown began collecting in the...
Cafe Gallery Project: Sutapa Biswas: Birdsong
Birdsong is a projected film tableau in which a horse is viewed in a domestic interior, standing motionless except for the gentle and subtle movements of its body. Seen through the eyes of a child – whose dream it is to have a horse living in his ...
Hyde Park Art Center: Cut, Pulled, Colored and Burnt
Raising issues of representation, cultural identity and assertion through photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage, the exhibition offers a diverse group of provocative, serious works, tempered by often humorous social critique. D...

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