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noble houses: home economics
The noble houses of eighteenth century England… …In themselves, or rather in their titles, these men symbolized great accretions of social and political power as well as wealth. They were heads of great clans of families who had served them … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Duke of Bedford, Jan Siberechts Dutch Artist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Sandby paintings, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Wentworth Woodhouse, William Kent Architect
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canaletto in London: one picture tells many stories
Canaletto’s picture perfect painting for postcard tourist reproduction was just a bit too idyllic and ideal. He painted a View From the Thames from Lambeth Palace on a sparkling summer day in the middle of the eighteenth century. But what … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles Beddington curator, Charles de Brosses, Charles James Fox, Edward Dayes water colorist, George Vertue, Henry Fielding, Owen McSwiney, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, Thomas Chippendale furniture, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond, War of Austrian Succession
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canaletto: capturing the body english
Canaletto and his postcard from London. A little too picure perfect. What was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny afternoon… On the whole, London was lucky in that the town’s best source of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, Chelsea Ware, Henry Fielding, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier painter, Steele and Addison, Thomas Chippendale furniture, Wedgewood pottery
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canaletto: from venice to the thames
Canaletto’s iconic painting, A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace is a picture perfect postcard, but behind this idyllic view of eighteenth century London was simply too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. In fact, much was happening … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, David Garrick, Henry Fielding, Hyde Park floggings, Judith Dufour, London eighteenth-century, London the Spectator, London the Tatler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier, Samuel Scott painter, Smith's Square London, Tyburn public hangings
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canaletto and London: a bit too postcard perfect
The best of cities, in the best of seasons. But what was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny afternoon. After all, the picture is just too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. … Continue reading
canaletto: sunny afternoon
Canaletto in London…. The picture is so pleasant, as a matter of fact,that only a tourist could believe it. The eighteenth-century was, above all, a time of wrenching contrast between rich and poor; of starvation, riots, soaring death rates; a … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Charles James Fox, Charles James Fox gambling, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Judith Dufour, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, William Hogarth
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canaletto: picture perfect postcard
…The rumor went around town that this painter was not the real Canaletto, that the real Canaletto had stayed in Venice, or else that some assistant was working for him in London “in makeing or filling up his pieces…of works … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Edward Dayes water colorist, Ferdinand Philip 6th Prince Lobkowicz, Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George Vertue, Madame Pickwick, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond
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canaletto : the “vedutes”
A postcard from London.. …In 1739, the French scholar Charles de Brosses summed up both Canaletto’s talents and career in a letter to a friend: “Sa maniere est claire, gaie,vive…et d’un detail admirable…” Nearly all of the work Canaletto did … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Carlevaris painter, Catchpenny prints, Charles de Brosses, Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George Vertue, Giovanni Antonio Canal, John Duke of Bedford, Joseph Smith consul Venice, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Owen McSwiney, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond, War of the Austrian Succession
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postcard from london
To treat one of the best works of one of Italy’s finest eighteenth-century painters as a mere tourist’s memento of a London holiday- as no more than a picture postcard- must seem callous indeed. However, Canaletto’s art was exactly that … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Carlevaris, Catchpenny prints, Duke of Richmond, Ferdinand Filip, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Lewis Walpole, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Owen McSwiney, The Grand Tour, The Grand Tour Venice
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ROYAL COLLECTORS: DROLL PRINCES AND PRICELESS PAINTINGS
Sometimes, it may be wiser to not have loved and lost, or to have bothered even loving at all…especially in the case of the portraits of King Henry VIII’s wives. Nonetheless, the British royal Collection is a fascinating grouping of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Ramsay, Anthony Blunt, Anthony Van Dyck, Canaletto, Edward Cross, Erasmus, Hans Holbein the younger, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Laurent Agasse, James Voorhies, Johan Zoffany, John Gould, Joshua Reynolds, Lauren Fliegelman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucien Freud, Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Sir Henry Guildford, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas More, William Etty
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