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The words 'amateur artist' conjure up a picture of Victorian ladies and gentlemen sketching in watercolours out of doors, and of portfolios and sketchbooks filled with charmingly naive landscapes and flowers gathering dust in attics. This book sets out to challenge this image.
Far from being a Victorian phenomenon, drawing and limning (painting in miniature) were among the polite accomplishments of courtiers and virtuosi of the seventeenth-century Stuart court, including Prince Rupert and John Evelyn. Royal princesses, ladies at court and their circle of well-educated 'Bluestocking' friends made copies of paintings, miniatures and pastel portraits, and worked flowers in needlework, watercolour and cut-paper. Later in the eighteenth century, followers of Alexander Cozens and William Gilpin produced landscapes in monochrome, while the military pupils of Paul Sandby painted more highly coloured prospects of the coasts and fortifications of Britain's colonies, as well as the ruins of antiquity nearer to home. Grand tourists of both sexes interpreted the landscape and people of Europe through eyes trained by drawing masters like John Robert Cozens and Francis Towne. However, professional artists soon came to feel threatened by the skill and influence of amateurs, and when the Society of Painters in Water Colours was founded in 1804 non-professionals were excluded from membership, resulting in the emergence of an amateur closer to the Victorian stereotype.
Over 200 works, most of them from the British Museum's collections and previously unpublished, are described and illustrated in this major study of a neglected aspect of British art history.
Biografía del autor
Kim Sloan is Curator of the British School in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.
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- VerlagBRITISH MUSEUM
- Erscheinungsdatum1999
- ISBN 10 0714126241
- ISBN 13 9780714126241
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten256
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A Noble Art: amateur artists & drawing masters c.1600-1800
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British Museum Press, London, 2000
ISBN 10: 0714126241
ISBN 13: 9780714126241
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. ~~Paperback~~VG- 1st ed 2000 British Museum paperback, profusely illustrated. Light central spine crease and toning to pages only, VG and unmarked. Size: 28cm. 256 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Great Britain Views. [literature] 2000; ISBN: 0714126241. ISBN/EAN: 9780714126241. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 080924. Artikel-Nr. 080924
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