/lit/ - Literature

>>20549290
All these great artists like Leighton, Bouguereau, Tadema, Waterhouse, etc were practically discarded and forgotten after they died and remained forgotten for around 100 years.
Many of these artists works are missing today, some of them have hundreds of paintings missing.
It's likely that most of them are either still in some dusty attic somewhere rotting away, or have been destroyed by the bombings during WW2