A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

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 ...

pamphlets and prints representing her as the devil, a witch, a vampire, “Austria’s creature,” a hydra headed ...

range of works of art. It held seven exhibitions between 1751 and 1774, at various venues and on different ...

efforts to show works of art beyond the narrow confines of the royal court intensified and in 1796 a catalo ...

neoclassical) in France, Italy and elsewhere (Kaufman, 1995, 307–330, 368–438). Frederick the Great acquired ...

seen as increasing competition from street culture. They were then held annually every year (exc ...

Collection at Versailles. The Salons were not, however, the only occasions on which the public could view ...

in 1769) and less official or hierarchic public displays of art. Churches and civic buildings accommodat ...

1762 many of the artists involved in the 1760 exhibition had abandoned the Society of Arts, due to its effo ...

SaintBernard ) (1800–1801) for which the entry fees earned him an impressive sum as well as enhanced celebrity. ...

The display of portraits could fuel both scandal and celebrity. The subjects of actress portraits in particula ...

Figure 3.5 Pietro Antonio Martini (1738–1797): The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787, engraving on paper, 36 ...

sides of windows rather than in more prominent positions. Preparatory sketches were sometimes displayed al ...