Court Painting in England From Tudor to Victorian Times
Court Painting in England From Tudor to Victorian Times
Constable | 1980 | ISBN: 0094618704 | English | 262 pages | PDF | 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.