The painters of Ireland, c.1600-1920 / Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin; foreword by James White

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 304 p.: ill.(some col.), ports(some col.); 31 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p.293-295. - Includes index. Contents: The seventeenth century -- Portrait painters 1700-1750 -- Landscape painting in the first half of the eighteenth century -- The Dublin Society Schools and the Pastellists -- Portraiture 1750-800 -- James Barry -- Mid eighteenth-century landscape painters and the Irish in Rome -- Landscapes 1760-1820 -- Foreigners in Ireland and decorative painters -- After the Act of Union -- Landscape painters to the mid-nineteenth century - Petrie, O'Connor and Danby -- Nineteenth-century subject pictures and portraits -- The influence of Antwerp, Paris, Brittany and London -- The turn of the century to 1920. Subjects: Painting, Irish. Painting, Modern Ireland. Irish paintings ca 1660-1920. Critical Studies. Genre: Criticism and Interpretation.