Rather than a formal history, Cook offers chapters from the chronicle of English art: the first drawing schools, the Italian and French ceiling painters Verrio and Laguerre, the founding of the Royal Academy, Hogarth’s widow and her lodger, Allan Ramsay, George Romney, the fashionable miniaturist Cosway, and the lives of a scene-painter, an engraver and a pupil of Reynolds.
Gossipy, well-informed stories of Georgian artists for readers who like their art history human. Download the free EPUB.