Author: Roger Finch
Publisher: Hutchinson
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: James Ayres
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782977422
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 537

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Before the foundation of academies of art in London in 1758 and Philadelphia in 1805, most individuals who were to emerge as artists trained in workshops of varying degrees of relevance. Easel painters began their careers apprenticed to carriage, house, sign or ship painters, whilst a few were placed with those who made pictures. Sculptors emerged from a training as ornamental plasterers or carvers. Of the many other trades in a position to offer an appropriate background were ÔlimningÕ, staining, engraving, surveying, chasing and die-sinking. In addition, plumbers gained the right to use oil painting and, for plasterers, the application of distemper was an extension of their trade. Central to the theme of this book is the notion that, for those who were to become either painters or sculptor, a training in a trade met their practical needs. This ÔtrainingÕ was of an altogether different nature to an ÔeducationÕ in an art school. In the past, prospective artists were offered, by means of apprenticeships, an empirical rather than a theoretical understanding of their ultimate vocation. James Ayres provides a lively account of the inter-relationship between art and trade in the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, in both Britain and North America. He demonstrates with numerous, illustrated examples, the many cross-overs in the Ôart and mysteryÕ of artistic training, and, to modern eyes, the sometimes incongruous relationships between the various trades that contributed to the blossoming of many artistic careers, including some of the most illustrious names of the ÔlongÕ eighteenth century.

Author: Christopher Harvie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198227833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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This is a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain, focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. It argues that the port cities and their hinterlands formed a 'floating commonwealth' whose interaction with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics created an intense political and cultural synergy.

Author: Robert Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781841145457
Category : Marine painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Pierhead painting is the term applied to the work of artists who specialised in painting portraoits of ships for the seamen who manned them" -- Jacket.

Author: James Shuttleworth
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039171451
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Ship portraits include paintings, prints, and photographs. A ship portrait is often more than just an image of a vessel. This book focuses primarily on paintings and prints, discussing the content of a portrait and how to interpret the information in it. For the new collector and current collector alike, students, ship modelers, and curators this book includes tools to help you navigate sources, auctions, research, flags, funnel marks, signatures, attributions, dates, condition, details, and restoration of ship portraits.

Author: Antony John Lewery
Publisher: Steve Parish
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Author: David Bernard Dearinger
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555950293
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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This is the first installment of a fully illustrated catalogue of the Academy's priceless collection of paintings and sculptures.

Author: Evelyn de Rostaing McMann
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802027900
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This index has been compiled as a quick reference guide to biographies of 9,052 professional and amateur artists active in Canada from the seventeenth century to the present. The artists represent 42 professional categories, from animation to topography. In addition to 8,261 Canadian artists, the Index has 391 British, 300 American, and 100 European artists, all of whom spent part of their careers in Canada. Each entry provides the artist's name, date and place of birth and death (or years the artist flourished, if birth and death dates are not available), the nationality (if not Canadian), type of artist (major medium media used), and sources in which biographical information may be found. Several hundred cross-references link the various names used by some artists during the course of their careers.

Author: Andrew Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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All the publicly owned oil paintings in Suffolk have been brought together in this comprehensive volume.