Download or read book Scottish Portraiture 1644 1714 written by CARLA. VAN DE PUTTELAAR and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive publication on Scottish portraiture from the period 1644 to 1714, with an emphasis on the painters David Scougall (1625-1685), and his son John Scougall (1657-1737). It is based on in-depth art historical and archival research. As such, it is an important academic contribution to this thus far little-researched field. Virtually nothing was known about the Scougall portraitists, who also include the somewhat obscure George Scougall (active c. 1690-1737). Thorough archival research has provided substantial biographical information. It has yielded life dates and data on family relations and, also, it has become clear that David Scougall had two parallel careers, as a portrait painter and as a writer (solicitor). The legal community in which the Scougalls were embedded has been defined, as well as an extended group of sitters and their social, economic, and family networks. The book includes a catalogue raisonne of the oeuvre of David Scougall. The most important contemporaries of the Scougalls were the portraitist L. Schuneman (active c. 1655/60-1667 or slightly later), his successor James Carrudus (active c. 1668-1683 or later), whose work is identified for the first time in this book, David Paton (c. 1650-in or after 1708), Jacob Jacobsz. de Wet (1641/42-1697) and Sir John Baptist Medina (1659-1710). Their lives and work are discussed. An extensive survey of Scottish portraits, with an emphasis on the work of the Scougall painters, is presented for the period 1644 to 1714. Numerous attributions to various artists and sitter identifications have been established or revised. An overview of the next generation is provided, in which the oeuvres and biographical details are highlighted of the principal portrait painters, such as William Aikman (1682-1731), Richard Waitt (1684-1733) and John Alexander (1686-1767). Countless paintings have been photographed anew or for the first time, and have been compared in detail, which had hardly been done before, while information is also included on technical aspects and (original) frames. The resulting data have been complemented by analysing the social and (art-) historical context in which the portraits were made. The works of the portrait painters in Scotland from this period, as this book shows, now form a solid bridge between the portraits painted prior to George Jamesone's death in 1644, and those by the renowned Scottish painters of the eighteenth century.

Download or read book The Story of Scottish Art written by Lachlan Goudie and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark publication celebrating over 5,000 years of creativity, The Story of Scottish Art explores Scotland’s cultural identity and artistic output through the ages. This is the fascinating story of how Scotland has defined itself through its art over the past 5,000 years, from the earliest enigmatic Neolithic symbols etched onto the landscape of Kilmartin Glen to Glasgow’s position as a center of artistic innovation today. BBC TV broadcaster and artist Lachlan Goudie passionately narrates the joys and struggles of artists striving to fulfill their vision and the dramatic transformations of Scottish society reflected in their art. The Story of Scottish Art is beautifully illustrated with diverse works from Scotland’s long tradition of bold creativity: Pictish carved stones and Celtic metalwork, Renaissance palaces and chapels, paintings of Scottish life and landscapes by Horatio McCulloch, David Wilkie, the Glasgow Boys, and Joan Eardley; designs by master architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh; and collage and sculpture by pop art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi. Through Scotland’s remarkable artistic history, Goudie tells the story of a small country with an extraordinary creative output that influenced significant global movements, such as art nouveau and pop art, while constantly redefining its own practices.

Download or read book The Scottish School of Painting written by William Darling McKay and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery written by Scottish National Portrait Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Raeburn written by Sir Henry Raeburn and published by National Galleries of Scotland. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) is one of the most universally admired and best loved of all Scottish painters. His work defines the society of which he himself was such a distinguished part. Through his eyes we still see those who graced the social and intellectual world of Scotland in the later years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Redolent of the world which Raeburn painted are the dramatic portraits of judges, like the crotchety Lord Eldin and the eloquent Lord Newton, the writer Sir Walter Scott, and the geologist James Hutton. But Raeburn had a gentler, more domestic side, as typified by the profound and touching sentiment of the double portrait of Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik and his appealing portraits of children. Together with the portrait of the skating minister Reverend Robert Walker, arguably now one of the most famous paintings in the world, his paintings light up a whole society in a way that is unparalleled.

Download or read book Scottish Painting Past and Present 1620 1908 written by Sir James Lewis Caw and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Art and Identity written by Viccy Coltman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

Download or read book Painting in Scotland written by Duncan Macmillan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The three greatest painters in Scottish history are Allan Ramsay, Sir Henry Raeburn and Sir David Wilkie. Together with their contemporaries in other fields, among them David Hume, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, they created the greatest period of Scotland's cultural history, the Scottish Enlightenment, from the eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth. This book. . .is a celebration of the painters of Scotland's Golden Age." /

Download or read book Masterpieces of Scottish portrait painting written by Talbot Rice Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Face of Scotland written by James Holloway and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland has produced an astonishingly high number of men and women whose lives have inspired and changed the world. This book, illustrating just over forty portraits, represents only a few of them, but with Robert Burns and Walter Scott, Eric Liddell an

Download or read book A Companion Guide to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery written by Scottish National Portrait Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to the collection of portraits held in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Download or read book Henry Raeburn written by Coltman Viccy Coltman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited volume devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter.Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) is especially well known in Scotland as the portrait painter of members of the Scottish Enlightenment. However, outside Scotland, the artist rarely makes more than a fleeting appearance in survey books about portraiture. A review of the most recent exhibition devoted to the artist held in Edinburgh and London during 1997/8, noted that it wears the aspect of a closure rather than a new dawn' in Raeburn studies, with the painter being shown 'in solitary splendour'.This volume seeks to recover Raeburn from his artistic isolation by looking at his local and international reception and reputation, both in his lifetime and posthumously. It focuses as much on Edinburgh and Scotland as on metropolitan markets and cosmopolitan contexts. Previously unpublished archival material will be brought to light for the first time, especially from the Innes of Stow papers and the archives of the dukes of Hamilton.Key Features* 14 chapters each looking at different aspects of Raeburn's professional career* International scholars contributing to Raeburn studies for the first time* Interdisciplinary perspectives setting a new agenda for Raeburn studies* Traditional art analysis integrated with cultural, social, political and economic history* Includes much unpublished archival materialKeywordsScotland, Raeburn, Enlightenment, portraiture, art, patronage, taste, collecting

Download or read book Catalogue of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery written by Scottish National Portrait Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Raeburn s Rival written by Stephen Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scottish Art to the Close of the Nineteenth Century written by Stanley Cursiter and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Historical Portraits written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Portraits: Some Notes on the Painted Portraits of Celebrated Characters of England, Scotland, and Ireland is an excellent volume on art history, and more specifically portraiture. It is the work of English author and editor Henry Benjamin Wheatley containing reproductions and detailed entries on more than one hundred English, Irish, and Scottish portraits In Historical Portraits Wheatley remarks in his opening that the painting of portraits was one of the most widespread artistic endeavors in English history. The purpose of the book is thus to create a general catalogue of these works. The book is divided into chapters, each of which details a different segment of painted portraits. There are chapters on spurious and misnamed portraits, amateur portrait painters, portraits of professionals, portraits of actors and actresses, portraits of common people, and several more subjects. As a volume about artwork, this title rightfully includes a significant number of illustrations. Henry Benjamin Wheatley was a portrait enthusiast and a man knowledgeable of art history, and both of these attributes help to shape this text. Wheatley has selected a wide range of portraits for interpretation, ranging from images of a common farmer to members of the aristocracy. The author's textual descriptions and analysis are thorough, well researched, and regularly illuminating. Even readers with a significant knowledge of the subject matter will find this to be an informative read. Wheatley tells both the history of artists and their subjects as well as a broader history of the development of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. If you are interested in either English history, art history or portraits you would be wise to consider this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Concise Catalogue of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery written by Scottish National Portrait Gallery and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated, the Concise catalogue of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery presents a complete checklist of every painting, sculpture, drawing, miniature and silhouette in the main collection of some 3,200 items. The collection includes the most comprehensive public holdings of portraits of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Queen of Scots and the Stewart princes.