Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… quest for custom and a fine reputation. Places > Sports & Leisure Places > Institutions Mots-clés Art Children Commerce Conversation Exhibitions Fashion Portrait Women Among the many artistic venues which flourished in Britain over the … and occasional portrait painter Peter Tillemans [Fig. 1] presented a tidy and well-organised stage for informed artistic conversations between artist and friend –here a suitably bewigged Tillemans and Reverend Cox Macro– or artist and … 22, 1933–4), p. 25. Portraitists’ studios were, indeed, places where polite manners were all-important and the art of conversation had to deploy itself as productively as possible during the sittings. In accordance with this, Vertue …
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