… in a confused Humming; which created in me a Reflection that could not come into the Mind of any but of one a little too studious; for I said to my self, with a kind of Pun in Thought, What Nonsense is all the Hurry of this World to those …
… since 1719. 2 When he settled in the city in 1756 or 1758, he aspired to a career as a painter and studied in the studio of the famous history painter Anton Raphael Mengs. However, on Mengs's advice, Byres abandoned painting to …
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… history painting under Benjamin West. Farington was educated in Manchester and then sent at the age of 16 to work in the studio of Richard Wilson (1713-1782) who specialized in landscape paintings, many of which circulated widely in …
… stops in her long travels throughout Europe, and upon her return to Paris in 1805, gave it a prominent place in her studio. 9 In Naples, Lord Hamilton received Vigée Le Brun in his various residences, including one with a view of Mount … 15 including Bertie Greatheed 16 (1803) and Maria Edgeworth (1820), 17 she exhibited the portrait in her Parisian studio throughout the Consulate and into the Restoration. The bonds of sociability she forged with the British world …
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… ( conversari: cum, versari ) in accordance with the nature of man, who was a sociable ( conversevole ) animal,’ and ‘studious leisure ( otium litteratum ) away from the hubbub of public life’ . In France, salons were thus the forums for …
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… Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation (London: HarperCollins, 2008), p. 425-426 5 . See below the group portrait by a studio assistant of Kneller: James Baker, ‘The Whig Junto’, Tate, T15046, 1710, …
… Mass Entertainment (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), p. 9. See also Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs (London: Studio Vista, 1975) and Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1830 (London & New York: Longman, …