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Reynolds : portraiture in action.
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ISBN: 9780300196979 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Yale university press

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ISBN: 1854373978 1854374443 9781854374448 9781854373977 Year: 2002 Publisher: London Tate

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The Stuart image : English portraiture 1603 to 1649
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ISBN: 9781783277209 1783277203 Year: 2023 Publisher: Woodbridge The Boydell Press

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GF Watts portraits : fame & beauty in Victorian society
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ISBN: 185514347X 9781855143470 1855143542 9781855143548 Year: 2004 Publisher: London National Portrait Gallery

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One of the great portrait painters of the 19th century, George Frederic Watts is best known for his 'hall of fame' series which forms the cornerstone of the National Portrait Gallery in London. This book illustrates and describes over 60 of his works, paying close attention to his reputation as an innovative artist.


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My dearest heart : the artist Mary Beale (1633-1699)
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ISBN: 9781912690084 191269008X Year: 2019 Publisher: London Unicorn

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Mary Beale (1633-1699) was one of the earliest professional women artists in Britain. Her successful career was documented by her husband, Charles, whose almanacks provide a unique record of Mary's patrons, painting technique and family affairs. Her portraits of politicians, clergy, aristocracy and intellectuals reflect the vibrant literary, scientific and political scene of the seventeenth century. She has been seen as a feminist icon not only as a professional artist but also as a poet and the author of a 'Discourse on Friendship' (1667) which argued for the equality of husband and wife in marriage--a radical concept at that time.

The ruler portraits of Anglo-Saxon England
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ISBN: 1281949620 9786611949624 1846152348 1843830590 Year: 2004 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press,

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Between the reign of Alfred in the late ninth century and the arrival of the Normans in 1066, a unique set of images of kingship and queenship was developed in Anglo-Saxon England, images of leadership that centred on books, authorship and learning rather than thrones, sword and sceptres. Focusing on the cultural and historical contexts in which these images were produced, this book explores the reasons for their development, and their meaning and function within both England and early medieval Europe. It explains how and why they differ from their Byzantine and Continental counterparts, and what they reveal about Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards history and gender, as well as the qualities that were thought to constitute a good ruler. It is argued that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so much a feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom.

CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds.


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Man with a blue scarf : on sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud
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ISBN: 9780500238752 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Thames & Hudson

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Lucian Freud spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting. As Freud creates his portrait, so Gayford produces his own portrait of the artist.


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Van Dyck and the making of English portraiture
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ISBN: 9781913107345 1913107345 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to English artists. By making his portrait sittings into a form of courtly spectacle, Van Dyck inspired poets and playwrights at the same time that he offended guardians of traditional hierarchies. A self-consciously Van Dyckian lineage of artists, many of them women, extends from his lifetime to the end of the eighteenth century and beyond.0 Recovering the often surprising responses of both writers and painters to Van Dyck's portraits, this book provides an alternative perspective on English art's historical self-consciousness. Built around a series of close readings of artworks and texts ranging from poems and plays to early biographies and studio gossip, it traces the reception of Van Dyck's art on the part of artists like Mary Beale, William Hogarth, and Richard and Maria Cosway to bestow a historical specificity on the frequent claim that Van Dyck founded an English school of portraiture.

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