Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages Who Died Between 1714 and 1837 Exhibited in the Examination Schools, Oxfo (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: .... The Rev. W. H. Hutton. Mr. T. W. Jackson, Mr. a. Macdonald. Mr. F. Madan. Mr. F. p. Morrell. Mr. J. L. Myres. Mr. R. L. Pool: . Mr. R. W. Raper. Mr. F. Ryman-Hall. Mr. W. S. S. Tyrwhitt. The Rev. W. Warner. Mr. H. E. WooLDRldGB. Mrs. R. L. Poole Iflon. Seere-Mr. C. F. Bell tariet. Members of the Executive Committee. INTEODUCTION By Lionel Cust, M. V. O., M. A., F. S. A., Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Surveyor of the. Kings Pictures and Works of Art, c. rrhE two exhibitions of Historical Portraits already held by-- the University of Oxford brought the history of painting in England down to an important point of departure in the history of British art. Up to the beginning of the eighteenth century art in England had produced little, which could be called original or indigenous, except portraiture, and that was based on formulas set in the time of the Tudors by the painters of the Netherlands, in the time of the Stuarts by Van Dyck, and in later days by the painters of Holland, or those of the decadent Italian school and their imitators in the academic schools of Paris. But from these borrowed and scarcely flickering ashes of art a new era was to spring. The origin is best described in the rough and ready words of the engraver, George Vertue, to whose diligence, as a chronicler of art-matters, nearly all the knowledge of this period of art in England is due. An Accademy of Painting settled or begun at London 1711 on S Lukes day by S Edmfi. Anderson, M Anthony Cope, M Henry Cook, undertook to promote get subscriptions from many Painters other artists in London on that account. Likewise had the approbation of S G. Kneller, M Dahl, M Richardson, Face-Painters, M Laguerre, Sign Pellegrini, M Thornhill, history painter. All these..