Court painting in England from Tudor to Victorian times
1980, First Edition. London : Constable. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #474302
ISBN: 0094618704
Physical description; 226 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 218) and index. Contents; Holbein in England – Tudor court painters after Holbein – Queen Elizabeth I and the painters – At the court of James I – The development of taste – Rubens and Van Dyck in England – Court painting in a troublous time – A court in dissolution and the after-effects of painting – The survival of the miniature – The followers of Van Dyck – Kneller – Court painter in five reigns – The Hanoverian age – The Georgian heyday – The end of an era. Subjects; Portrait painting, British. Portrait painting, English. Painting, English. Painting, Renaissance – England. Painting, Modern – 17th-18th centuries – England. Courts and courtiers – Portraits. Kings and rulers – Portraits. Great Britain – Court and courtiers – History. Great Britain – Kings and rulers – Portraits.
Price: €18.95