The intimate portrait
Subtitle: drawings, miniatures and pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence
By: Stephen Lloyd and Kim Sloan
Contributors: Sloan, Kim; National Galleries of Scotland; British Museum
Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland; The British Museum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781906270148
Subjects: Bildnismalerei; British Portraits; Portrait painting; Exhibitions
Description: "This book accompanies the first major exhibition held in Britain to focus on the more intimate types of Georgian and Regency portraiture. While oil paintings and sculpture dominated the public arena of portraiture, more private portraits were being created for domestic consumption and display. Nearly two hundred works, drawn from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Museum, by leading artists including Gainsborough, Ramsay, Wilkie and Lawrence, are illustrated and catalogued within thematic sections on self-portraits, depictions of family and friends and commissioned portraits of the rising middle classes and the celebrities of the day. The two introductory essays by the co-curators Stephen Lloyd and Kim Sloan discuss aspects of the intimacy in viewing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Published ... to accompany the exhibition ... held at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery,  Edinburgh, from 25 October 2008 to 1 February 2009 and at the British Museum from 5 March to 31 May 2009."--T.p. verso.

Includes index and bibliographical references (p. 263-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Intimate viewing :; title: the private face and public display of portraits in miniature and on paper  -- Stephen Lloyd; title: Drawing for business or drawing for pleasure? :; title: the place of portraits on paper  -- Kim Sloan; title: The miniature portrait :; title: continuing the tradition --; title: Pastel portraits :; title: "painting in crayons" --; title: Self-portraits --; title: Portraits of artist's families and friends --; title: From Merchant to Marquis :; title: portraits En masse --; title: The art of celebrity.