ARTISTIC fashions, like so much else in life, are subject to sometimes violent inter-generational swings. The lions of today will be scorned tomorrow or, perhaps worse, forgotten, but if there was quality to begin with, the reputational big dipper will likely soar again. An extreme case was the way in which Victorian masterworks could be had for a pound or two by 1950, only to sell for millions again a few decades later.
The rises and falls of the English watercolour market have been partly due to fashion, but other factors also had their effect. Many of the best examples were gathered into
