Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist
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Hand Coloured Print
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John Landseer
Lady Diana Beauclerk
Landscape Watercolourists
Le Beau Monde
London Packet
media hierarchy in art
Moon Light
National Library
Paul Sandby
professional artist identity
Professional Watercolourist
Robert Hunt
Royal Academy
Royal Academy studies
Sir George Beaumont
Sketching Societies
social history of English watercolours
Soft Ground Etching
Thomas Clay
Thomas Girtin
Thomas Sandby
Tinted Drawing
Water Colours
Watercolour
Watercolour Medium
Younger Men
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- ISBN 9781138739512
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 24 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the English watercolour, and the English watercolourist, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. His convincing narrative of the conflicts and alliances that marked the history of the medium and its practitioners during this period includes careful detail about the broader artistic context within which watercolours were produced, acquired and discussed. Smith calls into question many of the received assumptions about the history of watercolour painting. His account exposes the unsatisfactory nature of the traditional narrative of watercolour painting’s development into a ’high’ art form, which has tended to offer a celebratory focus on the innovations and genius of individual practitioners such as Turner and Girtin, rather than detailing the anxieties and aspirations that characterized the ambivalent status of the watercolourist. The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist is published with the assistance of the Paul Mellon Foundation.
