This fascinating 1873 publication is a version of the catalogue produced by the Wedgwood company almost one hundred years earlier, in 1787. A brief history of the catalogues is provided, followed by a long list of the cameos, intaglios, figurines, va...Lasīt vairāk
Born in Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1727, Thomas Gainsborough was perhaps the best-known portrait painter of the eighteenth century. This 1856 work by George Williams Fulcher (17951855), bookseller and poet, also of Sudbury, was seen through the press by h...Lasīt vairāk
This 1890 books prologue is an extract from the review by Ruskin leading to the libel case in which Whistler was paid one farthing in damages, and it continues in the same vein, offering correspondence between Whistler and the critics, edited to a...Lasīt vairāk
The most accomplished female painter of her age, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (17551842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 18357, and this English version...Lasīt vairāk
The most accomplished female painter of her age, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (17551842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 18357, and this English version...Lasīt vairāk
This brisk and amusing 1922 autobiography by the military painter Elizabeth Butler (18481933), illustrated with her own sketches, takes the reader from her peripatetic childhood through her artistic success to her life and travels as the wife of a s...Lasīt vairāk
This four-volume work by Gustav Waagen, translated by Lady Eastlake, was published between 1854 and 1857. Waagen was crucial to the adoption in Britain of the new approach to art history pioneered in Germany. Volume 1 describes the treasures of the B...Lasīt vairāk
This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510c.1590) was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissys extraordinary art had been brought before the Victor...Lasīt vairāk
This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510c.1590) was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissys extraordinary art had been brought before the Victor...Lasīt vairāk
This four-volume work by Gustav Waagen, translated by Lady Eastlake, was published between 1854 and 1857. Waagen was crucial to the adoption in Britain of the new approach to art history pioneered in Germany. Volume 2 describes the artworks in Buckin...Lasīt vairāk
Sir David Wilkie (17851841) is often called the first truly international British artist. This three-volume biography, published in 1843, two years after Wilkies sudden death while on a tour of the Mediterranean, and containing extracts from his jo...Lasīt vairāk
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Sir David Wilkie (17851841) is often called the first truly international British artist. This three-volume biography, published in 1843, two years after Wilkies sudden death while on a tour of the Mediterranean, and containing extracts from his jo...Lasīt vairāk
Sir David Wilkie (17851841) is often called the first truly international British artist. This three-volume biography, published in 1843, two years after Wilkies sudden death while on a tour of the Mediterranean, and containing extracts from his jo...Lasīt vairāk
Sir David Wilkie (17851841) is often called the first truly international British artist. This three-volume biography, published in 1843, two years after Wilkies sudden death while on a tour of the Mediterranean, and containing extracts from his jo...Lasīt vairāk
Sir William Martin Conway (18561937), well known as an alpinist (his The Alps from End to End is also reissued in this series), was by profession an art historian. Supported by Henry Bradshaw of the University of Cambridge, he pursued his interest i...Lasīt vairāk
This illustrated three-volume work, published between 1808 and 1817, the last in the sequence of John Nichols books on the painter and engraver William Hogarth, remains a useful source for art historians and anyone interested in the cultural l...Lasīt vairāk
This illustrated three-volume work, published between 1808 and 1817, the last in the sequence of John Nichols books on the painter and engraver William Hogarth, remains a useful source for art historians and anyone interested in the cultural l...Lasīt vairāk
Washington Allston (17791843) was considered by many at the time to be the greatest painter yet produced by the United States. After four years at Harvard, where he made an impression with his poetry, he went to London and became a pupil of the arti...Lasīt vairāk
This work by Goethe (17491832) was translated into English in 1840 by Sir Charles Eastlake (17931865), painter and later keeper of the National Gallery. Eastlakes clear translation of Goethes observations and experiments on colour and light will...Lasīt vairāk
Classical scholar, art collector and connoisseur Richard Payne Knight (17511824) took a keen interest in aesthetics and was a key figure in the debate on the picturesque. Of independent means, he journeyed across Europe, often in the company of arti...Lasīt vairāk
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Later known as Lady Eastlake, the writer Elizabeth Rigby (180993) travelled widely in her early years, and subsequently moved in the highest literary and artistic circles. After an illness in 1827 she was taken abroad to recover, and her encounters...Lasīt vairāk
Largely self-taught, the American artist Benjamin West (17381820) became a history painter for George III and a founder and president of the Royal Academy of Arts. This reissue brings together the two volumes of John Galts biography of West, first...Lasīt vairāk
This 1865 two-volume life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (172392) was begun by the Royal Academician Charles Leslie (17941859), and completed by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (181780). One of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century, Reynold...Lasīt vairāk
