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Photograph Credits

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.00023.025

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18352

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Courtesy of Agnew’s, London: 121, 219; © Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Foto: Jörg P. Anders: 13; The Bridgeman Art Library: 23, 209; © The British Museum: 17, 18, 19, 35, 36, 37, 38, 44, 52, 95, 96, 97, 100, 102, 170, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 207, 208; Christie’s Images Ltd 2001: 215; Courtesy of the Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art: 12, 42, 146, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 156, 157; © A. C. Cooper (colour) Ltd: 86, 186, 187, 189; Samuel Courtauld Trust © Courtauld Gallery: frontispiece, 5, 16; © Crown Copyright: UK Government Art Collection: 70; Photograph © 1986 The Detroit Institute of Arts: 41, 53; © The Frick Collection, New York: 87, in, 124; Photo by courtesy of Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London: 91; © National Gallery, London: 49, 115, 117, 123; © National Maritime Museum: 75, 212; Courtesy of The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: 4, 71; Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art: 3, 106, 129, 135, 148, 150, 154; © Photo RMN-H. Lewandowski: 20, 216; © PMVP/negative: Ladet: 8; © RSC Collection: 93; Science Museum/Science & Society, London: 101; Sir Geoffrey Shakerley, Photographic Records Ltd.: 119; © Slide Library, Courtauld Institute of Art: 10, 11, 163; Courtesy of Sotheby’s, London: 164; Courtesy of Mary Ann Steggles 158; © Tate, London 2001: 54, 66, 88, 103, 107, 113, 114, 120, 122, 125, 126, 132, 217; © Photo: theartarchive/The Garrick Club, London: 83; © Photo V & A Picture Library: 72, 136, 138, 142, 143, 144, 145, 159, 168, 178, 195, 200, 218; Courtesy of the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art: 34, 165, 214

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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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