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John Ruskin
John Ruskin, tinted lithograph published in London, c. 1880.
In 1870, John Ruskin was appointed as the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. He held this position from 1870 to 1879 and again from 1883 to 1884, during which time he delivered successive series of lectures on art and culture.1