A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

Figure 1.1 Gawen Hamilton (1698–1737): A Conversation of Virtuosis ... at the Kings Arms, oil on canvas, 8 ...

set up in 1720 by the artists John Vanderbank (1694–1739) and Louis Chéron (1660–1725), and formally reestablish ...

Stockholm and Dresden) reorganized in order to serve better the needs of national manufacturing and commerce ...

drawings and commissioned paintings from Nathaniel DanceHolland (1735–1811), Benjamin West (1738–1820) and ...

access to apprenticeships in the workshops of eminent artists. This meant that, even though their educatio ...

writer Roger de Piles (1635–1709), appointed as “honorary amateur” in the Academy, stimulated fresh critic ...

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Figure 1.2 Angelica Kauffman: Sir Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas, 127 × 101.5 cm, 1767, National Trust Collect ...

intellectual, narrative and formal conception of a painting: decisions about which figures, accessories, bac ...

employed. The study of plaster casts of antique sculptures allowed students to form a storehouse of “memories ...

as a result of frequent observation of real bodies in action. From these frequent observations the anci ...

What a scandal to hear nature deprecated in comparison to Greek statues by one who knows neither the one, ...

on Expression (Conférence sur l’expression, first published in 1698) and the expressive types in Various faces ...

essential components of great art. As de Piles’s message was assimilated by subsequent generations of artists, t ...

undermine the emphasis on a wellordered composition or clearly defined lines central to the ethos of disegno, t ...

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Figure 1.4 Franz Anton Bustelli: Harlequina, hardpaste porcelain, h. 20.3 cm, c. 1763, German, Nymphenburg Porc ...

had trained initially in goldsmithing and miniatures (Macmillan, 1986, 74). Angelica Kauffman practiced throug ...

higher cultural ambitions of the Academy became clearer when there were enough fine arts students to ...

representation on its governing body. Katie Scott has related the ensuing legal proceedings (Scott, 1989). Essential ...