Download or read book The Old Watercolour Society and Its Founder members 1804 1812 written by Basil Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist written by Greg Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the English watercolour, and the English watercolourist, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. His convincing narrative of the conflicts and alliances that marked the history of the medium and its practitioners during this period includes careful detail about the broader artistic context within which watercolours were produced, acquired and discussed. Smith calls into question many of the received assumptions about the history of watercolour painting. His account exposes the unsatisfactory nature of the traditional narrative of watercolour painting’s development into a ’high’ art form, which has tended to offer a celebratory focus on the innovations and genius of individual practitioners such as Turner and Girtin, rather than detailing the anxieties and aspirations that characterized the ambivalent status of the watercolourist. The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist is published with the assistance of the Paul Mellon Foundation.
Download or read book The Enchanted River written by Simon Fenwick and published by Sansom Company Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the Royal Watercolour Society was at the heart of the British artistic establishment. Members included David Cox, Peter De Wint and Samuel Palmer, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and John Singer Sargent. For much of the twentieth century, it was considered out of touch with developments in British art, until changing fashion brought about the re-establishment of the RWS as a significant force in contemporary British painting. In an engaging narrative, Simon Fenwick records these changing fortunes, and the controversies, personal vendettas and financial crises which characterised much of its history. He tells how Jane Austen visited the 1813 exhibitions looking for portraits of characters from Pride and Prejudice ; how Burne-Jones resigned from the Society in 1870 over complaints about 'nudities' in one of his paintings, and how, when Helen Allingham was elected to full membership in 1889, the President predicted that this would lead to 'lady members shrieking at RWS meetings ... and the breaking-up of the Society'.
Download or read book Nineteenth century Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Business of Watercolour written by Simon Fenwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume will revolutionise the study of watercolour painting in Britain. The Royal Watercolour Society archive constitutes a major academic resource covering two hundred years of the history of watercolour painting in Britain. The rediscovery in 1980 of ‘the Jenkins Papers’, the early records of the Society, was a major find for the history of British art. The archives are substantial and remarkably comprehensive. Minutes of annual general meetings, Council and committees, are all intact; extraordinarily, the Society’s catalogues for its own exhibitions have also survived, with details of who bought the pictures and for how much. It contains biographical information on several hundred artists who practised throughout the United Kingdom from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. Prepared by the archivist to the RWS, Simon Fenwick, this is not just a work of reference, but an absorbing book to dip into again and again. The Society of Painters in Water Colours, as it was then titled, was founded in 1804 to promote the interests of painters using watercolour and to provide a platform for members to sell their work. As such, its archives provide an excellent insight into the evolving debate on the status of the artists and their medium, and an authoritative account of the way in which watercolour paintings were sold, distributed and acquired. The substantial introduction by Greg Smith surveys some of the purposes and practices of watercolour from 1750 to the present day and highlights key issues, many yet to be examined, relating to the study of watercolour. His survey is arranged around a number of topics including the notion of watercolour as a British art, collecting and display, book illustration, architectural drawing, map-making and topography, antiquarian studies, decorative arts, printmaking, portrait miniatures and drawings, amateur practices and the changing status of the sketch.
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography Founded in 1882 by George Smith written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britain in the Hanoverian Age 1714 1837 written by Gerald Newman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1714, king George I ushered in a remarkable 123-year period of energy that changed the face of Britain and ultimately had a profound effect on the modern era. The pioneers of modern capitalism, industry, democracy, literature, and even architecture flourished during this time and their innovations and influence spread throughout the British empire, including the United States. Now this rich cultural period in Britain is effectively surveyed and summarized for quick reference in a first-of-its-kind encyclopedia, which contains entries by British, Canadian, American, and Australian scholars specializing in everything from finance and the fine arts to politics and patent law. More than 380 illustrations, mostly rare engravings, enhance the coverage, which runs the whole gamut of political, economic, literary, intellectual, artistic, commercial, and social life, and spotlights some 600 prominent individuals and families.
Download or read book Glorious Nature written by Katharine Baetjer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This aptly named volume brings together 91 masterpieces in oil and watercolor by 44 artists, the zenith of England's sublime landscape tradition. These beautiful, innovative works represent the most talented artists of the genre -- including Gainsborough, Wright of Derby, Turner, and Constable.
Download or read book The British Studies Monitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report and Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions written by Tate Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Studies Monitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watercolor History and Technique written by Walter Koschatzky and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Watercolours 1760 1930 from the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery written by Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 1980 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750 1880 written by Andrew Wilton and published by Te Neues Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of expression for some of the Romantic era's greatest artists, among them Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. The painters of the next generation were no less ambitious, and the range of subject-matter and technical inventiveness that was sustained for much of the Victorian period was to set a standard in watercolour painting that was without equal abroad." "In this magnificently illustrated survey of the great age of British watercolours, Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles trace the development of attitudes to landscape and to the human figure in the landscape from 1750 to 1880. They show how once the traditional pen and ink drawing and its augmented washes of colour had been abandoned in order to paint directly in watercolours without pen outlines, the way was open for the powerful Romantic landscapes of the following decade and beyond, many of which were painted in the wild mountainous regions of Wales and Scotland." "During the nineteenth century, as the gilt-framed exhibition watercolour began to challenge the long-established oil painting in terms of size and in brilliance of colour and effect, the range of subject-matter was broadened to include scenes of country and town life from every part of Britain and, increasingly, from the Continent too. By mid-century the Near East was attracting many of the greatest Victorian watercolourists, including J. E. Lewis, David Roberts and Edward Lear. Other leading Victorians who regularly worked in watercolour include the Pre-Raphaelite painters John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, and the American-born James McNeill Whistler, all of whom are included in this book."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
