Title: 'Writing the lives of painters'
Description: This book explores the development of artists' biographies in the cultural context of 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. It argues that the proliferation of a myriad biographical forms mirrored the privileging of artistic originality and difference within an art world that had yet to generate a coherent 'British School' of painting.
Subjects: Art and literature, Biography as a literary form, History, Great britain, biography
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century