
The Stafford Gallery
The Greatest Art Collection of Regency London
Peter Humfrey(Author)
Unicorn Publishing Group
Published on 24. October 2019
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-9164957-5-3 (ISBN)
Description
The book will provides the first detailed history of the Bridgewater collection. The story extends from the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater's purchases in Rome in the 1750s, then on to the major acquisitions of the 1790s (especially from the Orleans collection), then through the incorporation of the collection into the Stafford Gallery by the 2nd Marquess of Stafford (1st Duke of Sutherland), and finally to its reinstallation by Lord Francis Egerton in the new Bridgewater House in 1851.
As well as providing a detailed account of the personalities and differing motives of three generations of collectors and owners, the book examines the ways in which the collection was arranged and displayed. It also discusses reactions to it by contemporaries, from sophisticated critics such as William Hazlitt, to the general public, and analyses major publications on it such as the four-volume illustrated catalogue by William Young Ottley of 1818.
The illustrations will include many works sold from the collection aft er 1946 and now widely dispersed.
As well as providing a detailed account of the personalities and differing motives of three generations of collectors and owners, the book examines the ways in which the collection was arranged and displayed. It also discusses reactions to it by contemporaries, from sophisticated critics such as William Hazlitt, to the general public, and analyses major publications on it such as the four-volume illustrated catalogue by William Young Ottley of 1818.
The illustrations will include many works sold from the collection aft er 1946 and now widely dispersed.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
150 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
953 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9164957-5-3 (9781916495753)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Emeritus Professor Peter Humfrey, a leading authority on Venetian Renaissance painting, who also has a strong interest in the history of collecting in Britain. His articles on the Duke of Bridgewater as a collector, and on the Sutherland Gallery at Stafford House, have been published in journals