Joshua Cristall — China Painter

摘要

Joshua Cristall (1) was a 'Fine Artist', in the terms of the time. He was highly regarded and liked by his fellow artists and was to become President of the Old Watercolour Society for several years. He was also important and the subject of an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1975. His biography was aptly titled In Search of Arcadia (2) in which his biographer, John Tisdall, wrote: Joshua Cristall has become to be regarded as one of the true founders of the early English school of watercolours; one of the principal innovators who developed the pale colour-washes of the eighteenth century into the full-scale imaginative painting of the nineteenth; a figure of central importance to the history of art.