Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… evolved from craftsmen’s workshops into painting 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 … a growing number of men and women with money and a desire for publicity commissioning their portraits, the business of Society portraitists thrived, with London serving as a magnet for those eager to bring their careers to a grand finale : … point for the Georgian portrait painter. 3 . George Vertue, ‘Vertue Notebooks: Vertue III’, The Volumes of the Walpole Society (vol. 22, 1933–4), p. 25. Portraitists’ studios were, indeed, places where polite manners were all-important and …
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