Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Smith, Charles Saumarez

Crafts & Hobbies

Abrams

First edition, over sized, comprehensive survey of English decorative arts in the 18th century beautiful full color plates, 400 pages

History

World

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

On the wintry afternoon of Monday 28 November 1768, an architect and three artists were granted an audience with George III at St James's Palace; their mission, the foundation of a royal academy of arts in London. 
This book, written by Charles Saumarez Smith, the current Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy, is the first day-by-day account of the events that led up to that meeting and what happened immediately afterwards. In its telling, it reveals the strong personalities involved, the rivalries and intrigues that divided them, the competing ideas about the teaching and exhibition of art, and the problems of governance that forged the Royal Academy, and continue to reverberate within it today, some 250 years later.

The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Continuum

The National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery's collection of portraits of British men and women constitutes a complete survey of both historical and contemporary personalities. A national pantheon of great figures - from King Henry VIII to David Bowie - portrayed by great artists - from Holbein to Avedon - the Gallery's collection includes likenesses of political, artistic and scientific characters, including Mary, Queen of Scots, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, James Joyce, Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier, Barbara Hepworth and Salman Rushdie. The book includes a selection of the finest portraits in the Gallery, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day. It forms a permanent record of the range and diversity of British life over the last 400 years, and provides a view of the faces that created Britain's history and culture. Charles Saumarez Smith is the author of "The Building of Castle Howard" and "Eighteenth Century Decoration".

Saumarez Smith, Charles

Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns

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