Court Painting in England From Tudor to Victorian Times

Автор: William Gaunt
Название: Court Painting in England From Tudor to Victorian Times
Издательство: Constable
Год: 1980
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 262
Язык: English
Размер: 42.4 MB

Portaiture began as we know it in Tudor times and the book spans three centuries from Holbein's great portrait of Henry VIII to Landseer's mournful Queen Victoria, seated on a pony held by John Brown. Most of the chief artists of any period - Hilliard, Lely, Kneller, Cooper, Zoffany, Van Loo, Ramsay, Gainsborough - were connected with the Court, and had a title such as 'The King's Limner' or 'Painter-in-Ordinary to the Queen', and a salary. This authoritative work provides a comprehensive history of court painting and the royal painters.