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• Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor; and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, from the Time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to That of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by John Thomas Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue, British school. (Printed by order of the Trustees by Harrison [etc.]., in the 19th century), by Tate Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance. (Virtue and company, limited, 1876), by S. C. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Royal Academy of Arts from its foundation in 1768 to the present time. With biographical notices of all the members. (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1862), by William Sandby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the national gallery of British art at South Kensington, with a supplement containing works by modern foreign artists and old masters. (Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, for H. M. Stationery off., 1893), by South Kensington Museum and Richard Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal Academy exhibitors 1769-1904 (H. Graves and co., ltd. [etc.], 1905), by Algernon Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The followers of William Blake: Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond & their circle (Halton & T. Smith, ltd.;, 1925), by Laurence Binyon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British contemporary artists (C. Scribner's sons, 1899), by W. Cosmo Monkhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• British sporting artists from Barlow to Herring (John Lane;, 1922), by Walter Shaw Sparrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Murray Marks and his friends; a tribute of regard (J. Lane;, 1919), by George Charles Williamson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Etching in England (G. Bell & Sons, 1895), by Frederick Wedmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain ... (Printed by the order of the Trustees, 1898), by British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings and Laurence Binyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to collectors. 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (McCarquodale & co;, 1907), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Phiz" (H.K. Browne) : a memoir (George Redway, 1882), by Frederic George Kitton and Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance. (Virtue, 1877), by S. C. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old English drawings (F. A. Stokes, 1923), by Randall Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits in oil and vinegar (L. Mac Veagh, 1925), by James Laver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous houses and literary shrines of London (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1912), by Arthur St. John Adcock and Frederick Adcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Phiz" (H.K. Browne) : a memoir (W. Satchell and Co., 1882), by Frederic George Kitton and Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• War paintings & drawings by British artists, exhibited under the auspices of the Ministry of information, London (Redfield-Kendrick-Odell company, inc., 1919), by Great Britain. Ministry of Information, Christian Brinton, and Worcester Art Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects. (J. Murray, 1830), by Allan Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions of oil paintings from 1760-1880 (G. Bell, 1884), by Algernon Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• British artists, from Hogarth to Turner; being a series of biographical sketches (Hurst and Blackett, 1861), by Walter Thornbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-lives of our great artists (F.A. Stokes, 1912), by Francis Jameson Rowbotham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to collectors. 3,500 illustrations. English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd., 1903), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forty drawings of Roman scenes by British artists (1715-1850) from originals in the British Museum. (London, 1911), by British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings and Rome (Italy). Esposizione internazionale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British Institution, 1806-1867; a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the institution (G. Bell and Sons and A. Graves, 1908), by Algernon Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• An authentic history of the professors of painting, sculpture, & architecture, who have practised in Ireland (H. D. Symonds [etc., 1796), by Anthony Pasquin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue, biographical and descriptive, of a collection of paintings belonging to R. Hall McCormick, principally of the English school. (Chicago, 1900), by Art Institute of Chicago and R. Hall McCormick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fine arts of the English school; illustrated by a series of engravings, from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists: with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays, by various authors. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812), by John Britton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue: British school (exclusive of the Turner collection) (HMSO, 1921), by Tate Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• English furniture, decoration, woodwork, and allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (McCorquodale & Co., 1890), by Thomas Arthur Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom : with some account of the means employed for that purpose ; and biographical notices of the artists who have received premiums, &c. 1805-1859 (Simpkin & Marshall, 1860), by Thomas Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• British contemporary artists (W. Heinemann, 1899), by W. Cosmo Monkhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue, with descriptions, historical notes and lives of deceased artists. (Printed for H.M. Stationery off., 1914), by Tate Gallery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Descriptive and historical catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery : with biographical notices of the deceased painters, British school (Printed for H.M. Stationery Office and sold at the Gallery, 1901), by Tate Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in English art. (R. Bentley and son, 1876), by Frederick Wedmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue, with descriptions, historical notes and lives of deceased artists (Printed for H.M. Stationery off., 1911), by Tate Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bartolozzi, Zoffany & Kauffman, with other foreign members of the Royal academy, 1768-1792 (F.A. Stokes, 1924), by C. H. S. John (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A catalogue of paintings and drawings by William Rothenstein, exhibited at the Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford, June 25th, 1910. ([W. Byles], 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life of William Blake, With Selections From His Poems and Other Writings (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Alexander Gilchrist, contrib. by William Blake
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Ford Madox Brown; a record of his life and work (Longmans, Green, 1896), by Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in art. (The Art Trade Press, Ltd., [1927]-, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Blake in this world (Jonathan Cape, 1925), by Harold Lawton Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The real Blake : a portrait biography (McClure, Phillips and co., 1907), by Edwin John Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• British artists, from Hogarth to Turner : being a series of biographical sketches (Hurst and Blackett, 1861), by Walter Thornbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Farington diary. (Hutchinson, 1922), by Joseph Farington and James Greig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Autobiography of Hubert Herkomer. (Printed for private circulation, 1890), by Hubert von Herkomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examples of modern British art : forty masterpieces by the most celebrated painters of the English school from Hogarth to the present day : reproduced by the permanent Woodbury process : with biographical sketches of the artists. (Bickers and Son, 1877), by Bickers and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Morland : sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work (A.& C. Black, 1910), by George Morland and E. D. Cuming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of William Morris (Dover Publications, 1988), by Aymer Vallance (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A. (W. Scott Pub. Co. ;, 1906), by Edgcumbe Staley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Royal Academy and its members 1768-1830 (John Murray, 1905), by J. E. Hodgson and Fred A. Eaton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My acquaintance with Ruskin (s.n., 1916), by Frederick Brigden and John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religion of Ruskin the life and works of John Ruskin, a biographical and anthological study (F.H. Revell, 1907), by John Ruskin and William Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Descriptive and historical catalogue of the pictures and sculptures in the National Gallery of British Art ; with biographical notices of the deceased artists. (H.M.S.O., 1900), by Tate Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of artists of the English school: painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and ornamentists: (Longmans, Green and co., 1874), by Samuel Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Charles Samuel Keene (S. Low, Marston, 1893), by George Somes Layard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Royal Academy and its members, 1768-1830 (J. Murray, 1905), by J. E. Hodgson and Fred. A. Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of eminence (Alfred William Bennett , 1866), by Alfred W. Bennett, Edward Walford, and Ernest Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Blake, by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Blake, Painter and Poet, by Richard Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)

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