Gothic revival buildings and sentimental portraits of a young queen: the first part of the Victorian era set the stage for the rest of the century.
1837 - 1848
Gothic revival buildings and sentimental portraits of a young queen: the first part of the Victorian era set the stage for the rest of the century.
1837 - 1848
A new queen, a new building for Parliament, and the promise and peril of a new era powered by science and industry.
Unsettled by industrialization and the ugliness of the modern world, Victorians looked back to the Gothic style.
The visual vocabulary of classical antiquity was well-suited to the the British Empire’s temple of knowledge.
A tribute to home, hearth, and hounds, this painting hung in Queen Victoria’s sitting room and earned her praise.