Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… Studio’, Norwich Castle, NWHCM:1989.86:F, c. 1716. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Portrait Studio’, from The Comforts of Bath series, Wikimedia Commons, 1798. Abstract As British portrait painters’ working spaces evolved from craftsmen’s … became places of intense sociability. Savvily located in the cultural and commercial capitals of the day (in particular Bath and London), they provided the material stages on which rising artists sought to deploy newly acquired social skills … as a magnet for those eager to bring their careers to a grand finale : Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), moving from Bath in 1774 to end his career in Pall Mall, or George Romney (1734-1802), settling in the capital in 1775 after an early …
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