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David H. Solkin (Editor)

Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836

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David H. Solkin (Editor)

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18331

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Ann Bermingham is Professor of Art History and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Mark Hallett is Lecturer in History of Art at the University of York

Sarah Hyde is Interpretation Curator at Tate Britain

K. Dian Kriz is Associate Professor of Art History at Brown University

C. S. Matheson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Windsor, Ontario

John Murdoch is Director of the Courtauld Institute Gallery

Martin Myrone is a Curator at Tate Britain

Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the Open University

Marcia Pointon is Pilkington Professor in History of Art at the University of Manchester

Anne Puetz is Paul Mellon Centre Curatorial Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute Gallery

Michael Rosenthal teaches at the University of Warwick

Nicholas Savage is Librarian of the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Greg Smith is an independent scholar based in London

David H. Solkin is Reader in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

John Sunderland is Witt Librarian at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

William Vaughan is Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London

Alison Yarrington is Professor of Art History at the University of Leicester

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BOOKArt on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836

David H. Solkin (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18327

On May 1, 1780, England’s Royal Academy of Arts opened its twelfth annual exhibition, the first to be held in the magnificent rooms of William Chambers’s newly built Somerset House. For the next fifty-seven years, the Great Room of Somerset House effectively defined the center of the London art world--the place where viewers had to see and be seen, and where artists fiercely vied for the attention of potential buyers. Such great exhibition performers as Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, and David Wilkie sharpened their skills during these stimulating decades. In this extensively illustrated book, seventeen renowned experts revisit and assess the Somerset House years, a period of great achievement and central importance in the history of British art.

The book’s contributors view the Somerset House phenomenon from a broad range of perspectives. They deal with the physical nature of the exhibitions, the audience, the role of the press, the Royal Academy’s place within the larger world of urban entertainments, and how the conditions of display shaped and even transformed patterns of art production. In addition, they explore such topics as the tactics of exhibitors in different genres of painting, the exhibition histories of works in other media, and the impact on foreign artists and observers of an increasingly self-confident national school of British art.

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David H. Solkin (Editor)

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Print publication date November 2001 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300090918

EISBN 9780300248098

Illustrations 221

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