Placing Faces
Subtitle: The Portrait and the English Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780719090394
Subjects: Great britain, history, 18th century; Family, great britain; Great britain, social conditions
Description: This book explores the rich but understudied relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain. It features essays by well-known scholars such as Alison Yarrington, Gill Perry, Kate Retford, Harriet Guest, Emma Barker and Desmond Shawe-Taylor. Works discussed include grand portraits, intimate pastels and imposing sculptures. Moving between residences as diverse as Stowe, Althorp Park, the Vache, Chatsworth, Knole and Windsor Castle, it unpicks the significance of various spaces - the closet, the gallery, the library - and the ways in which portraiture interacted with those environments.