
The Intimate Portrait
Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence
National Galleries of Scotland (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-906270-14-8 (ISBN)
Description
This scholarly publication accompanies the first major exhibition held in Britain to focus on the more intimate types of Georgian and Regency portraiture. While oil paintings and sculpture dominated the public arena of portraiture, more private portraits were being created for domestic consumption and display. Nearly two hundred works, drawn from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Museum, by leading artists including Gainsborough, Ramsay, Wilkie and Lawrence, are illustrated and catalogued within thematic sections on self-portraits, depictions of family and friends and commissioned portraits of the rising middle classes and the celebrities of the day. The two introductory essays by the co-curators Stephen Lloyd and Kim Sloan discuss aspects of the intimacy in viewing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Illustrations
235 col
Dimensions
Height: 265 mm
Width: 245 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-906270-14-8 (9781906270148)
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Dr Stephen Lloyd is Senior Curator at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. He is the author of a number of publications for the National Galleries of Scotland, including Richard and Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion (1995); Raeburn's Rival: Archibald Skirving 1749-1819 (1999); as well as a series of catalogues on portrait miniatures.Dr Kim Sloan is the Francis Finlay Curator of the Enlightenment Gallery and Curator of British Drawings and Watercolours before 1880 at the British Museum, London. She is the author of a number of publications including "A Noble Art": Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters c.1600-1800 (2000); Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the 18th Century editor with Andrew Burnett (2003); and A New World: England's First View of America (2007).