Daily Archives: 2022-10-01


October 2022 – Walter Pater’s “A Prince of Court Painters”: A Covert Autobiography and Museum Trips

by Anna Budziak “A Prince of Court Painters,” a story about the painter Antoine Watteau, was composed when Pater had already known the taste of fame and the sting of criticism. Although he wished it to be published unsigned, it appeared, in October 1885, in Macmillan’s Magazine, with his name […]