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Rose La Touche (1848–1875) was the pupil, cherished student, "pet", and ideal on whom the English art historian John Ruskin based Sesame and Lilies (1865). Background [ edit ] Rose was born to John "The Master" La Touche (1814-1904), of a Huguenot family which had settled in Ireland and ran a bank, and his wife Maria La Touche , the only child of the Dowager Countess of Desart, County Kilkenny.
Art. This article is more than 19 years old. Morbid love. What drove John Ruskin, leading art critic of the Victorian era, to madness? Philip Hoare has found the answer in a collection of long-lost...
Rose La Touche (1848–1875) was the major love of John Ruskin. She is the and ideal on whom the English art historian John Ruskin based Sesame and Lilies (1865). Ruskin met Rose when she was ten years old, and fell in love with her when she was eleven. She was a high-spirited child, yet also deeply religious almost to the point of mania.
The Portraits of Rose la Touche BY JAMES S. DEARDEN* IN December 1968 I had a letter from France from an elderly lady living at St Jean-de-Luz. She told me that she had two portraits of Rose la Touche which she wished to sell. The lady was Mrs Feodora Ward-la Touche, and Rose la Touche had been her aunt by marriage. Naturally portraits of Rose ...
Rose La Touche. Rose La Touche, the daughter of John La Touche, a wealthy Irish banker, was born in 1848. Her father became a friend of the art critic, John Ruskin. In his autobiography, Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life (1885), he wrote about his first meeting with Rose: "On presently the ...
Rose La Touche. John Ruskin. 1861. Watercolour on paper. Source: Robert Hewison’s Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites by way of Wikipedia.. Click on image to enlarge it. Rose La Touche
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Rose La Touche and soon became entranced with her precocious yet innocent charm, embarking on another disastrous passion which caused great mutual unhappiness until her death in 1875 and colored his every encounter with women for the rest of his life. Much later, when looking back through his diaries to trace the causes of his mental
