Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
William Rothenstein, fully Sir William Rothenstein
German-born English Painter, Printmaker, Draughtsman and Writer on Art
"There are fashions in immortality as there are trivial fashions. Books and pictures read differently to different generations."
"How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike."