Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… c. 1716, the depiction of an artist’s studio by Flemish-born and occasional portrait painter Peter Tillemans [Fig. 1] presented a tidy and well-organised stage for informed artistic conversations between artist and friend –here a suitably … of the Artist (London: Royal Collection Trust, 2016), p. 92-157. Reality often differed from such programmatic representations. In that respect, the notebooks of art commentator George Vertue (1684-1756) offer illuminating insights … England also had, often adjacent to their painting room, a showroom or art gallery which he described in 1756 in his The Present State of the Arts in England : Every portrait painter in England has a room to show his pictures, separate from …
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