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Woman Behind the Painter : The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook, Paperback / softback Book

Woman Behind the Painter : The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook Paperback / softback

Edited by Juliet McMaster

Paperback / softback

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The wife of the prominent Victorian painter of seascapes, James Clarke Hook (1819-1907), Rosalie was a trained artist and brought her artist's sensibility, her humour, and her talent for relationships to the project of writing a diary of their travels to Italy in the two turbulent years of the Risorgimento leading up to 1848.

Rosalie's subsequent diary records a busy professional couple in the thick of running a country home with studio, annual trips to the bracing coastal sites where Hook painted, and their relations with famous contemporaries.

Juliet McMaster, a descendant of the Hooks, provides a fascinating introduction on their professional and personal lives.

The book is illustrated throughout by Hook's vivid sketches and by many of James's and Rosalie's paintings.

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