The Plains of Heaven

by John . - Charles Mottram Martin, artist, engraver

$3,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

The painter of the Apocalypse in lyrical mood. John Martin was born, and spent his early youth in Northumberland in the north of England. His memories of the idyllic landscape of Allendale in the Northern Penines are said to have been the source for this image of Paradise painted late in a life of contrasting fortunes. Martin had enjoyed enormous popularity during the 1820s, but by the 1850s tastes had changed and his grandiose visions seemed theatrical and outmoded to the

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