Hellfire Christians, dogged believers in the divinity of the Bible's every word ... may wonder that such paintings could ever have been popular. They are by John Martin, a painter half a ...

Farrell, curator of the Robert H. Taylor Collection, for his help with this post. The collection includes two works by the British artist John Martin, who was fifty-eight when he completed the ...

John Martin the painter – who paid for his brother’s defence at the subsequent trail – is an eccentric of art history. He came from a humble background. Born in a one-room cottage at Haydon ...