Woman Behind the Painter

The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook

• Author(s): Rosalie Hook,
• Publisher: University of Alberta
• Pages: 246
• ISBN_10: 088864437X
  ISBN_13: 9780888644374
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / History / General , Art / European , Art / Individual Artists / General , Art / Individual Artists / Monographs , Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers , Biography & Autobiography / Women , Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs ,

Description:... 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.