Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… fine reputation. Places > Sports & Leisure Places > Institutions Keywords Art Children Commerce Conversation Exhibitions Fashion Portrait Women Among the many artistic venues which flourished in Britain over the course of the eighteenth … half of the eighteenth century –, or during such an exhibition if one wanted to capitalise on the event – as became the fashion in London following Gainsborough’s conflict with the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’s hanging committee in 1784. … violent these dynamics were for women, particularly young ones. 12 As the desire to have one’s likeness taken by a fashionable painter vied with that to keep control over one’s image, even women of high birth ended up giving in to the …
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