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Author:   Viccy Coltman (Head of History of Art, University of Edinburgh) ,  Stephen Lloyd
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.989kg
ISBN:  

9780748654833

ISBN 10:   0748654836
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   06 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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Overall, these essays offer thoughtful and often provocative assessments of Raeburn's art, the context of his times and his place in British cultural history. They attest to the current vitality of Raeburn studies-scholarship soon to be augmented by a modern, full-scale catalogue of Raeburn's paintings. -- William S. Rodner, ournal of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Author Information

Dr Viccy Coltman is a Senior Lecturer and Head of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, where she specialises in visual and material culture in the long eighteenth century. The author of two books and one edited book, she is currently working on a study of Scots in metropolitan, cosmopolitan and imperial contexts from 1745 to 1832. Dr Stephen Lloyd is Curator of the Derby Collection at Knowsley Hall on Merseyside. He was Senior Curator at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (1993-2009) and President of ICOM's International Committee for Museums and Collections of Fine Arts (2004-2010). He has authored many exhibition catalogues for the National Galleries of Scotland, is co-author of Henry Raeburn and his Printmakers (2006) and The Intimate Portrait: Portrait Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels fromRamsay to Lawrence (2008-9).

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