A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

Vernet, eulogized by Diderot for being so “conversant ... with natural phenomena” was reported to have a “fruit ...

in his A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire (1778); William Gilpin (1724–1804) in his illus ...

beggars were often used to lead the eye into a composition or to add human interest. Watercolor works ...

step further by suggesting that “dead” or inanimate objects are the main focus in such works, although ...

1793), influenced by previous commentators such as JeanBaptiste Du Bos (1670–1742) and La Font de Saint Y ...

ranges of tureens, sauceboats and centerpieces typical of the fashionable contemporary “French dining service” i ...

Figure 2.16 JeanBaptisteSiméon Chardin: The White Tablecloth, oil on canvas, 96.8 × 123.5 cm, 1731/32. ...

contemporary (rather than chronologically remote) events. West and Hogarth also explored morally significant them ...

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 ...