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Subtitle: Interactions with British Art c. 1776-1855 (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750, New Readings)
Contributors: Christiana Payne (Editor); William Vaughan (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780754607120
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; British influences; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Techniques - Painting; British Isles; Congresses; History - General; 19th century; European; 18th century; Art, Modern
First sentence: Students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art have long been fascinated and diverted by tantalizing evidence of the wider, global significance of their subject: by the thought of Catherine the Great reading a French translation of Reynolds's Discourses in St Petersburg in 1790, for example, or of Constable's Hay Wain winning a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824.