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Introduction: On Painting, Commerce and the ‘Public’ in Eighteenth-Century Britain
David H. Solkin
Description: Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century...
Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England
Commerce and virtue have rarely been the best of friends. Throughout recorded history western societies have commonly viewed trading practices as a necessary evil, requiring strict vigilance lest the passions stimulated by the pursuit of economic gain...
Author
David H. Solkin
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 1992 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.1-26
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31853
Chapter subject tags:Art and society--Britain--History--18th centuryPainting, British--18th centuryConsumer (Economics)--England--18th centuryClosterman, John, 1656-1711 or 1713Portrait painting, British--18th centuryShaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713

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