View John Martin Apocalypse Paintings US. He was celebrated for his typically vast and melodramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. He completed them in 1853 shortly before a stroke paralysed his right side.
The early victorian artist john martin was born in haydon bridge, northumberland, on 19 july 1789.
The biblical account of the flood, in genesis, in which god punishes human wickedness by destroying all life on earth except the few people and pairs of animals which were in noah's ark, and martin's personal morden bc (2010) john martin. Being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss. Apocalypse, at tate britain is the largest display of his work in public since 1822. The early victorian artist john martin was born in haydon bridge, northumberland, on 19 july 1789.