Title: Art and the Victorian middle class
First published: 1996
Description: This is the first study of middle-class collection practices in nineteenth-century England. It examines the Victorian art world from the perspective of the businessmen whose successes during the Industrial Revolution caused them to turn to art as a means of carving out an identity of their own that was distinct from the leisured existence of the aristocracy and gentry.

Macleod's analysis of class, motivations, and patterns of consumption among patrons is supplemented by an indispensable appendix of collectors, making this an essential work of reference.
Subjects: History, Art and society, Identification, Middle class, Art patronage, Middle class, great britain, Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901
Places: England
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: N72.S6 M23 1996