"The question that remains is, where does all this leave Waterhouse's Painting in Britain 1530-1790? As a book it could hardly be more different from Painting for Money, not least because Reynolds and the creation of the Royal Academy are, respectively, its hero and its climatic event, not its disastrous denouement"...
"Painting in Britain differs from books of the new art history not absolutely, though it does so in method, in approach, in scope, mood and style, and in practically any other way one can think of (except seriousness of scolarship)".
Michael Kitson 1994 introduction to Ellis Waterhouse's 1952 Painting in Britain
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