Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… rooms supplemented with exhibition rooms and fitted out to accommodate Society patrons, they became places of intense sociability. Savvily located in the cultural and commercial capitals of the day (in particular Bath and London), they … 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 century, the artist’s studio provided the … 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 bewigged Tillemans and Reverend Cox Macro– or artist …
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