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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… Art and Literature Keywords Art Collecting Commerce Conversation Correspondence Exhibitions Friendship Patronage Poetry Salons William Blake (1757-1827) was born into a dissenting family at 28 Broad Street in Soho (London) where his father … by Flaxman and the Reverend A.S. Mathew (1734-1824) and his wife Harriet Mathew (1743-1815), who hosted a literary salon and invited Blake on Flaxman’s recommendation. At these social gatherings Blake is reputed to have sung; Harriet … eidetic images, not hallucinations, and only real to him. In the final decade of his life, when he frequented the Aders’ Salon, Blake is reported to have told ‘a little group gathered around him’ about an extraordinary sighting on an evening …
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… make any demands on her husband. On marrying Henry Thrale, thus, Hester did not seem predestined to become a glittering salonnière : on the contrary, her life seemed confined and dreary, and her husband was widely known to be a womanizer … a war of words among his guests (Franklin 40). Hester revelled in her role as the fashionable hostess of a literary salon (including a lavish dinner table), vying with, and accepted by, the Bluestocking queen Elizabeth Montagu , who … occasion exasperated her. However, a trip to France the next year was quite a success, and introduced her to the French salonnière, Mme du Boccage, and her circle, as well as to French theatre and French art (Franklin 80-82). 5 4 . For her …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… which would turn each tea /coffee table assembly into exclusive circles reminiscent of the seventeenth-century French salons . Doing so, they highlighted that the core tenets of sociability – politeness and conversation 4 – could in fact …
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Huguenots in Northern Europe [ Commerce / Religion & Philanthropy ]
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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… an audience that was wider than before, and these exhibitions themselves constituted a new form of patronage. The Paris Salon opened to the public in 1737, and in 1768, the Royal Academy of Arts was created under the patronage of the king …
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