Talk:William James Blacklock

Lack of references in Assessment section
When I wrote this article I was careful to ensure that all statements were sourced, and all sources were listed in the References section. Since then, material has been added in the Assessment section which is totally devoid of any references.

WP:V states a fundamental cornerstone of Wikipedia: “''The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth&mdash;whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true. All material in Wikipedia articles must be attributable to a reliable published source…''”

In accordance with this principle, please cite reliable published sources for the statements in the Assessment section. If unsupported statements remain at the end of July 2010, I will consider it my duty to remove them in accordance with Content removal.

Regards — Hebrides (talk) 20:36, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I have removed the V&A from the "works on display" list, as there is no entry for him in Parkinson, Ronald Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings, 1820-1860, 1990, HMSO, ISBN0112904637, or on the collection database online. Also nothing online for the British Museum, so out they go. I've amended the wording too, as by no means all works owned are on display at any moment; eg the BM would only own watercolours, drawings or prints, which would certainly not be on permanent display. Johnbod (talk) 22:40, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * The quotation from Newall comes from a recent Sotheby's sale cataloue. I can't verify the Grigson passage - but the first quoted sentence is simply placing him in historical context and the words "creative wonder between Romanticism and Impressionism" clearly refer to Courbet, not Blacklock. The following sentence attributed to Grigson seems very poorly phrased for such an accomplished writer: "Blacklock in his much superior way to the PRB participated differently in a naturalism of vision and imagination which changed the arts, or the serious artists, by the middle of the 19th century". I footnoted it to Country Life article, from which it was said to have come, but it would be desirable to check the source if possible. Paul B (talk) 15:02, 20 June 2010 (UTC)