John Ruskin, English author, critic, and academic (died 1900)

John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.

February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 326 days remain until the end of the year.