George Romney 1734-1802. Exhibitions - Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool) , 8 February - 21 April 2002; and National Portrait Gallery (London) , 30 May - 18 August 2002
de Kidson, Alex
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1855145014
- ISBN 13
- 9781855145016
- Librería
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London: National Portrait Gallery Publications. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover (contemporary cloth). 1855145014 . The year 2002 marked the bi-centenary of the death of George Romney, one of the leading artists in Britain during the last quarter of the 18th century. Romney was born and died in the north-west, although he made his name in London. At the height of his career he was more fashionable than Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough as a society portraitist, but all his life he wanted to paint elevated historical and literary subjects. He lacked the confidence to carry out many of his most ambitious projects, but in the last fifteen years of his working life, under the spell of his favourite model and muse Emma Hart, later the celebrated Lady Hamilton, he produced a sequence of Shakespearean and other fancy subjects which count among the most imaginative and poetic canvases of their time. The association of Romney's name with Lady Hamilton's in the Victorian era contributed to the subsequent eclipse of his reputation as a serious artist. In the 20th century, Romney was gradually re-evaluated as a brilliant, spontaneous draughtsman whose mind teemed with ideas, but who lacked the application to turn his sketches into finished works. Romney's mature drawings were recognised as having been highly influential on a group of younger contemporaries such as John Flaxman and William Blake, and their modernity has appealed to many twentieth-century artists. This wast he first ever exhibition which surveyed the whole range of Romney's art, from his grandest full-length portraits to the tiny thumbnail studies preserved in sketchbooks. It reveals an ambitious and progressive artist who developed and re-invented himself continuously. Light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket slightly scratched and worn. Light wear to spine, cover and corners. ; 24.5 x 28.3 x 3cm; xii, 244 pages .
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- Literary Cat Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- George Romney 1734-1802. Exhibitions - Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool) , 8 February - 21 April 2002; and National Portrait Gallery (London) , 30 May - 18 August 2002
- Autor
- Kidson, Alex
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (contemporary cloth)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1855145014
- ISBN 13
- 9781855145016
- Editorial
- National Portrait Gallery Publications
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Palabras clave
- 1855145014, Fine Art, British Art, Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, George Romney, Walker Art Gallery
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