Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… Places > Sports & Leisure 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 … serving as both an ante-chamber to the artist’s creative sanctuary and an art gallery. With a growing number of men and women with money and a desire for publicity commissioning their portraits, the business of Society portraitists thrived, … England , Marcia Pointon has shown how much more intricate and psychically violent these dynamics were for women, particularly young ones. 12 As the desire to have one’s likeness taken by a fashionable painter vied with that …
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