Henry Raeburn: Context, Reception and Reputation

ISBN-13: 9780748654833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str.

Viccy Coltman

Opis

The first illustrated scholarly work devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) is especially well known in Scotland as the portrait painter of members of the Scottish Enlightenment. However, outside Scotland, the artist rarely makes more than a fleeting appearance in survey books about portraiture.Ten international scholars recover Raeburn from his artistic isolation by looking at his local and international reception and reputation, both in his lifetime and posthumously. It focuses as much on Edinburgh and Scotland as on metropolitan markets and cosmopolitan contexts. Previously unpublished archival material is brought to light for the first time, especially from the Innes of Stow papers and the archives of the dukes of Hamilton.

Spis treści

FOREWORD; Viccy Coltman and Stephen Lloyd; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ‘Indiscriminate praise is little better than censure’: critical contexts for understanding Raeburn’s portraiture, Stephen Lloyd; PART I: CONTEXT; ‘I cannot coin money for them’: Raeburn in the nexus of patronage, the art market and global trade, Stephen Lloyd; Scotland’s Canova and the immortal Raeburn, Helen E. Smailes; Raeburn’s John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun: the ‘knotty’ business of portrait painting in London and Edinburgh in the 1810s, Viccy Coltman; In the shadow of Napoleon: the 10th Duke of Hamilton and Raeburn, Godfrey Evans; Raeburn and the print culture of Edinburgh c.1790-1830: constructing enlightened and national identities, Stana Nenadic; PART II: RECEPTION; A portrait of the artist in London: the critical reception of Raeburn’s Royal Academy exhibits, 1792-1823, Nicholas Tromans; The critique of the modern French school of painting from Reynolds to Constable, Philippe Bordes; Raeburn in America: Scottish-American art networks, 1791-1845, Robyn Asleson; Raeburn and Goya: the redefinition of artistic personality, Sarah Symmons; PART III: REPUTATION; Allan Cunningham’s presentation of Henry Raeburn as a model Scottish gentleman in artistic practice, Matthew Craske; Synonymous with manly portraits: re-evaluating Raeburn’s women, Jordan Mearns; Raeburn in France, Olivier Meslay; Raeburn and the revival of mezzotint portraiture, 1890-1930, David Alexander; List of Illustrations; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.