 Victorian painting had gone through radical changes , and by the 1870s the realism of Etty and the Pre @-@ Raphaelites had given way to the ideas of the Aesthetic Movement , abandoning the traditions of storytelling and moralising in favour of painting works designed for aesthetic appeal rather than for their narrative or subject . Although the aesthetic movement ultimately led to a brief revival of history painting , these works were in a very different style to Etty 's . The new generation of history painters such as Edward Burne @-@ Jones , Lawrence Alma @-@ Tadema and Frederic Leighton sought to depict passivity , rather than the dynamism seen in previous works depicting the classical world . By the end of the 19th century , the value of all of Etty 's works had fallen below their original prices . As the 20th century began , the increasingly influential Modernist movement , which came to dominate British art in the 20th century , drew its inspiration from Paul Cézanne and had little regard for 19th @-@ century British painting . 
