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… Studio’, from The Comforts of Bath series, Wikimedia Commons, 1798. Abstract As British portrait painters’ working spaces evolved from craftsmen’s workshops into painting rooms supplemented with exhibition rooms and fitted out to … to the artist’s private home, the ‘painting room’, as the place where sittings took place was called, formed a hybrid space where private, even intimate relationships intersected with economic transactions and the development of a taste … is largely informed by the new polite and commercial circumstances which made their way into the artist’s working space to transform it into one of constant negotiation between art, rank, gender and money. Image Legend Peter Tillemans, …
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