This is a study of portrait painting and what the paintings tell about 18th-century social history. The author's aim is to introduce the 18th century portrait according to the sitter and to interpret the ideas and meanings contained in the portrait to show what they tell about contemporary society and culture. The artists chosen from a wide range of sources show portrait painting at its high point in the history of British art. They include Reynolds, Kneller, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Lely, Ramsay, Raeburn, Romney and Stubbs ...
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This is a study of portrait painting and what the paintings tell about 18th-century social history. The author's aim is to introduce the 18th century portrait according to the sitter and to interpret the ideas and meanings contained in the portrait to show what they tell about contemporary society and culture. The artists chosen from a wide range of sources show portrait painting at its high point in the history of British art. They include Reynolds, Kneller, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Lely, Ramsay, Raeburn, Romney and Stubbs along with less well-known painters.
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Add this copy of The Georgians: Eighteenth Century Portraiture and to cart. $37.33, fair condition, Sold by Ladylisabooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chester, , UNITED KINGDOM, published 1990 by Barrie & Jenkins.
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Very Good. 1990. hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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VG. Green cloth with gilt lettering at spine; Color illus. dj.; 239 pp.; 147 color and bw figures. Examines eighteenth-century portraiture through the various forms of "sitters"--soldiers and war heroes, children, young women of "sensibility, " and more; Includes portraits by Gainsborough, Hogarth, Ramsay, Reynolds, Francis Cotes, Romney, Raeburn, Sir William Beechey, and more; Extensive annotations and beautiful plates.
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