The Church of England Quarterly was founded in 1837 to protect the interests of all established institutions, particularly those of High Anglicanism, against 'infidelity, liberalism and popery' as it declared in its prospectus of 1837. (See Altholz, Religious Press in Britain, p. 26.)
The Church of England Quarterly was one of the first to review Modern Painters I (see Church of England Quarterly, January 1844). Two years later a review of Modern Painters II in the Church of England Quarterly, July 1846 made a retrospective assessment of Modern Painters I.