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… intimate relationships intersected with economic transactions and the development of a taste for the arts among a large public. It was often supplemented with a ‘showroom’ 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, with London serving as a magnet … France, 2020), p. 530. Private showrooms were undoubtedly precious in promoting an artist’s talent in cities without a public exhibition – such as Bath in the second half of the eighteenth century –, or during such an exhibition if one …
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