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John Ruskin
John Ruskin, tinted lithograph published in London, c. 1880.
Before becoming an art critic, John Ruskin was largely educated at home during his formative years. He later spent five years at the University of Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry, though he was unable to sit for an honours degree due to ill health.1