A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

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 ...

followers, which became well known not just in the print market but also in the writings of art critics, ...

Figure 2.11 JeanBaptiste Greuze: Broken Eggs, oil on canvas, 73 × 94 cm, 1756. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

activities such as the observation of scientific experiments. He painted contemporary, imaginative and Shakespearea ...

Figure 2.12 JacquesLouis David: The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, oil on canvas, 323 × ...

those aspiring to an aristocratic lifestyle to acquire their own art collections served as a metaphor for ...

Figure 2.13 JeanAntoine Watteau: Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera, oil on canvas, 129 × 194 cm, Paris, Mus ...

fashioning and display in a way that reassured them they still had the ability to win power over others, ...

“elite sociability” prevalent in Parisian and other urban contexts, embracing their interest in particul ...

laborious effort rather than flights of genius (Wrigley, 1993, 299–301). Such “naturalism” was often associ ...

inspired by classical Greek and Roman myths and pastoral idylls. Such landscapes were often completed as ...

more aesthetically constructed compositions. Their services were sought not only by the Crown but also by ...

He produced some works representing his native Welsh landscape, such as his Claudeinspired Snowdon from L ...