Charles Brooking 1723 1759 And The 18th Century British Marine Painters

Author : David Joel
Publisher : ACC Distribution
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Brooking 1723-1759 written by David Joel and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Brooking is at the forefront of English marine painters, but since he died, aged thirty-six, in 1759, there was to be no recognition in his short life to justify his remarkable ability. He has probably produced the most atmospheric and beautiful marine paintings of all time. All his known pictures are illustrated and described in this much needed catalogue raisonn, together with all his known drawings and engravings. There is also a chapter on eighteenth century London marine engravers written by James Taylor, a curator at the National Maritime Museum. The book also describes the Dutch marine painters in the seventeenth century and shows how the English school developed following the Van de Veldes' work at Greenwich. This is the first book to cover fully eighteenth century British marine painters in general terms and Charles Brooking in particular. It is badly needed by scholars, collectors, sale rooms, museums and art galleries. 142 colour & 193 b/w illustrations

Author : David Joel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854927712
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Brooking 1723-1759 and the 18th Century British Marine Painters written by David Joel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Wright
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300117301
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections written by Christopher Wright and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.

Author : Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228012449
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Empire written by Gauvin Alexander Bailey and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most monumental buildings of France’s global empire – such as the famous Saigon and Hanoi Opera Houses – were built in South and Southeast Asia. Much of this architecture, and the history of who built it and how, has been overlooked. The Architecture of Empire considers the large-scale public architecture associated with French imperialism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India, Siam, and Vietnam, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indochina, the largest colony France ever administered in Asia. Offering a sweeping panorama of the buildings of France’s colonial project, this is the first study to encompass the architecture of both the ancien régime and modern empires, from the founding of the French trading company in the seventeenth century to the independence and nationalist movements of the mid-twentieth century. Gauvin Bailey places particular emphasis on the human factor: the people who commissioned, built, and lived in these buildings. Almost all of these architects, both Europeans and non-Europeans, have remained unknown beyond – at best – their surnames. Through extensive archival research, this book reconstructs their lives, providing vital background for the buildings themselves. Much more than in the French empire of the Western Hemisphere, the buildings in this book adapt to indigenous styles, regardless of whether they were designed and built by European or non-European architects. The Architecture of Empire provides a unique, comprehensive study of structures that rank among the most fascinating examples of intercultural exchange in the history of global empires.

Author : Philip Hook
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782832157
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rogues' Gallery written by Philip Hook and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings, merchants, nobles, entrepreneurs and museums. From its beginnings in Antwerp, where paintings were sometimes sold by weight, to the rich hauteur of the contemporary gallery in London, Paris and New York, art dealing has been about identifying what is intangible but infinitely desirable, and then finding clients for whom it is irresistible. Those who have purveyed art for a living range from tailors, spies and the occasional anarchist to scholars, aristocrats, merchants and connoisseurs, each variously motivated by greed, belief in their own vision of art and its history, or simply the will to win. The cast of characters includes Paul Durand-Ruel, the Impressionists' champion; Herwath Walden, who first brought Modernism into the limelight; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, high priest of Cubism; Leo Castelli, dealer-midwife to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; and Peter Wilson, the charismatic Sotheby's chairman who made the auction room theatre. Philip Hook's history is one of human folly, greed and duplicity, interspersed with ingenuity, inspiration and acts of heroism. Rogues' Gallery is learned, witty and irresistibly readable.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maritime Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margarita Russell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004617574
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Sea written by Margarita Russell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol Adams
Publisher : ACC Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9781851493425
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daily Telegraph Guide to the Antique Shops of Britain 2000-2001 written by Carol Adams and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 2000-02-16 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one essential book for anyone involved in antiques whether

Author : John B. Hattendorf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History written by John B. Hattendorf and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of seafaring history to the present day, from the first crude canoes and rafts to today's nuclear submarines and supertankers, the Encyclopedia of Maritime History will systematically survey the separate but related interests of general historians and maritime specialists. Comprising more than one million words in four volumes, the work's nine hundred entries will provide a detailed and synthetic overview of the scope and sweep of maritime history, and will bring together in a readily accessible form a range of historical and professional information that can otherwise be found only with the help of an extensive library.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea History written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: