A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

through dramatic depictions of (largely) white heroism and sacrifice (Quilley, 2011, 3–10, 113–164). There ar ...

some of the mythological, heroic and allegorical devices of history paintings in order to achieve higher status. T ...

the sitters involved to assert that they belonged to a particular class and its achievements. Female sitt ...

British landscape painting reached new levels of invention and sophistication, with the assistance of a growing li ...

3 Markets, Publics, Expert Opinions An extensive market for art developed in the eighteenth century. This was ...

guilds. Even those artists from countries with a more developed art market welcomed court commissions ...

bourgeois as well as to aristocrats (Percival, 2012, 42). From the early eighteenth century, a rising f ...

and still lifes: a style or genre associated with a specific national identity was appropriated by ...

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Figure 3.1 Pompeo Batoni: Francis Basset, 1st Baron of Dunstanville, oil on canvas, 221 × 157 cm, Madrid, Museo del ...

Figure 3.2 JeanAntoine Watteau: Shop Sign of the Art Dealer Gersaint, oil on canvas, 163 × 308cm, Berlin, Schl ...

an unfortunate circumstance for some, given the popular association of the studio, in the minds of the genteel, ...

western preoccupation with “possessing” specimens of other cultures as a means of demonstrating one’s ow ...

presence was more recent and the races could meet on more even terms. Zoffany’s Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock ...

sold well to the local Company market as well as back in Britain, where they were sometimes prod ...

market (Smentek, 2007, 223–224). The print market was aided by a lively culture of collecting. The trade in En ...

master works and contemporary history painters, while the print shops of Matthew and Mary Darly (highly succes ...

to “stop out” or dim the ink on it, so that tonal variations or masses of light and shade were emphasiz ...

and Thomas Paine (1737–1809), who saw the French Revolution as an opportunity to canvas for more widespread vot ...