A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

Figure 2.4 Benjamin West: The Death of General Wolfe (1727–1759), oil on panel, replica c. 1771, Private collec ...

portraits of themselves: What resource will be left to the history painter if he is not in a position ...

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Figure 2.5 JosephBenoît Suvée: The Invention of the Art of Drawing, oil on canvas, 267 × 131.5 cm, 1791, ...

character of an individual. One decision relating to the head was whether a sitter should be represented wear ...

for example, for Gainsborough to execute a portrait in its entirety, including landscape settings, drapery ...

rights to land, wealth and title in which large extended families featured significantly (Pointon, 1993 ...

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Figure 2.6 Claude Michel, known as Clodion: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689– 1755), marble, h. 1 ...

Collection, London, has discovered through the use of Xrays and infrared images the ways in which Reynolds often ...

Figure 2.7 Sir Joshua Reynolds: Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway, oil on canvas, 133.4 ...

example, treating some of her female sitters in a gentler way that focused on their capacity for feeling, ...

and inward, “absorbed” expressions in portrait representations that seem much less explicitly to address or ...

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Figure 2.8 Arthur Devis: Portrait of Lady Juliana Penn, oil on canvas, 91.8 × 79.1 cm, 1752, Philadelphia ...

subjects. This “naturalism” was often acknowledged as an artifice, due to the fact that living flesh ...

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Figure 2.9 JeanAntoine Houdon: Sabine Houdon (1787–1836), white marble on gray marble socle, overall, without b ...

Figure 2.10 Johan Zoffany RA: The Gore Family with George, 3rd Earl Cowper, oil on canvas, 78.7 × 97.8 cm ...

coincided with a growing interest in genre paintings; that is, paintings of figures often (but not excl ...