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Index
Act of Settlement, 29
Addison, Joseph, 29–30, 32, 36–7, 39–40, 43, 47, 49, 60–1, 68, 71–3, 93, 95–6, 99, 102, 140–1, 242, 272
and Godolphin, 42, 280n4
Cato, 97
on art, 51, 72, 254
on Frenchness, 77
on imagination, 218–9, 233
on Vauxhall Gardens, 107–8
paintings of, 32, 41, 50
aesthetics, the aesthetic, 12, 93, 184, 221, 235, 244, 247
Aglionby, William, 72
Agnew, Jean-Christophe, 42
Amherst, General, 193, 195, 197, 213
Andrew, Donna T., 159
Angellis, Pieter, 54, 73, 79, 90–1
A Company at Table, 89, Fig. 12
A Musical Assembly, Fig. 13
animals, 62
birds, 12–13, 58, 59, 106–7, 121, 140, 226, 231, 237–9
dogs, 54, 63, 89, 104, 125, 201
hares, 61, 65
horses, 154
lions, 60
Anne, Queen, 23, 29, 41
antiquity, 9–10, 25, 186–8, 224, 229–30 see also classical, classicism
architecture, 72, 133, 165
in paintings, 16, 17, 18, 45, 60, 131, 134, 147–9, 231
Aristotle, 91, 228
Arne, Thomas, 114
Ashley Cooper, Anthony (Lord Ashley)
see Shaftesbury, Anthony
Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Ashley-Cooper, Maurice, 4, 6, 7, 9, 19, 22, 26, 278n38
Bacchus, 64–5, 68, 70, 282n38
Bach, Johann Christian, 114
Baker, R. 270, 272, 300n46
Bakhtin, Mikhail M., 122, 131
Bank of England, 27
Barrell, John, 1, 169
Barrett, George, 266
Barry, James
Commerce, or the Triumph of the Thames, 292n82
The Temptation of Adam, 274–5
benevolence, 82–3, 98, 105, 156–65, 168, 179, 196–7, 202, 233, 261
see also philanthropy
Benoist, Antoine,
The Wapping Landlady and the Tars who are just Come Ashore (after Hayman), Fig. 49
Berkeley, George, 71
Bermingham, Ann, 76
Bible, 15, 17, 48, 160, 164–5, 172–4, 193, 203, 216
Bickham, George, junior, 112, 286n46
Head-piece for The Adieu to the Spring-Gardens (after Gravelot), 127, Fig. 36
Musical Entertainer, 125
Spring Gardens, Vaux-hall, 127, 129, Fig. 37
Rural Beauty, or Vaux-hal Garden, 129, 131, Fig. 39
Bindman, David, 89, 111
Blennerhassett, Celinda, 101
Bluett, George, 79
Boulton, James T., 273
Bourne, Henry, 140
Boyce, William, 112, 114
Boyer, Abel, 11
Brandoin, Charles
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting in the Year 1771, 274–6, Fig. 88
brothels, 51, 106, 110
Brouwer, Adriaen, 51
Brown, Tom, 107
Brownlow, Sir John, 76
Buckeridge, Bainbrigge
Essay towards an English School of Painting, 51
Burke, Edmund
Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 220–1
Butler, Joseph, 160
Campbell, Archibald, 79
Canaletto, Antonio, 125, 131
Vauxhall Gardens: the Grand Walk, 134–5, 137, Fig. 45
A View of the Centre Cross Walk etc. in Vauxhall Gardens, 134, Fig. 43
A View of the Temple of Comus etc. in Vauxhall Gardens, 133, Fig. 42
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 216
cards, card playing, 58, 60, 66, 84, 86, 88, 138
caricature, 51, 68, 78, 125, 148, 250–1
carnival, 120, 124, 139–41, 147–8
Castor and Pollux, 7, 10, Fig. 2
Centlivre, Susanna
The Basset-Table. A Comedy, 90
Champion, 115, 119
Charlton Fair, 117
Chatham, Earl of, 212
Child, Sir Richard, Lord Castlemaine, 90, 96
children, 89, 133, 138, 162, 233–6, 242, 257
childish diversions, games, 137, 147
see also Foundling hospital
Cicero, 37
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 266
civic humanism, 1, 4, 7, 19–23, 25, 30, 36, 48, 70, 84, 98, 169, 231
civilisation, 1, 15, 19, 48, 65, 112, 157–8, 237
classical, classicism, 2–4, 12, 14, 45, 66, 72–3, 149, 152, 170, 184, 186–9, 196, 198, 211, 214, 216, 224–5, 229–30, 237, 246
see also antiquity and Greece and Rome
classical republicanism see civic humanism
Clive, Lord Robert, 193, 197, 213
Closterman, John, 4, 231, 278n47
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, 23, Fig. 3
The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury and the Hon. Maurice Ashley-Cooper, 3–4, 6–7, 9–13, 19–23, 26, 36, 39, 224–5, 279n68, Fig. 1
clubs, 2, 40, 43, 45, 100, 106, 157
Kit-Cat club, 28–9, 36–8, 40, 42
coffee houses, 2, 43, 50, 106
comedy, comic, 52, 79, 81, 91–4, 137, 143, 150, 274
see also jokes and satire
Conduct of the Royal Academicians, While Members of the Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain, 261, 263
Conduitt, John, 96
Congreve, William, 29
connoisseur, 15–16, 53, 98, 134, 148–50, 152, 154–5, 173, 185–6, 199, 216, 238, 251, 253, 257–9, 275
connoisseurship, 74, 150, 179, 187, 247–8
Copley, Stephen, 118
Coram, Thomas, 159
Correggio, Antonio Allegri, 181, 186
Cotes, Francis, 266
country ideology/interest, 22–3, 61, 66, 100, 102
Coverley, Sir Roger de, 37, 60, 107–8
Cowley, Abraham, 7
Cowper, Ashley, 96
criticism, 150, 154, 177, 186, 247–276
Croker, Edward, 100–2
Crosby, Brass, 300n35
Crow, Thomas, 259
D’Avenant, Charles, 281n2
D’Oench, Ellen, 51
Daily Post, 112
Dance, Nathaniel, 266
dancing, 31, 117, 137, 143, 161
Defoe, Daniel, 81
Dennis, John, 48, 49, 57, 91, 283n7
A Description of Vaux-Hall Gardens, Being a Proper Companion and Guide for All who Visit that Place, 111, 149, 152–5
Devis, Arthur, 248
Devonshire, Duke of, 28
drink, drunkenness, 51, 68, 72, 95, 99–100, 108, 116, 120, 125, 143, 222
alcohol, 47, 70
wine, wine drinking, 40, 43, 46, 54, 68, 111
Dryden, John, 95
Du Bos, Jean-Baptiste, l’abbé, 170, 221, 297n75
Dutch, 50–1
art, 15, 16–17, 43, 45–6, 50–53, 57, 59, 73, 100, 142, 215, 254, 267
see also Netherlandish
Eagleton, Terry, 12, 37, 206, 274
Earlom, Richard
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting in the Year 1771 (after Brandoin), Fig. 88
Edelstein, Teri, 147, 301n46
education, 4, 17, 26, 46, 96, 119, 158–9, 179, 219–20, 233–6, 239, 242–3, 246
effeminacy, 48, 53, 57, 60, 62, 64, 68, 70, 77, 95, 222
see also fops
Egypt, ancient, 170–1
Einberg, Elizabeth, 38
emblem books, 57, 59
essay-periodical 2, 14, 30, 47
see also Gentlemen’s Magazine and Spectator and Tatler
etiquette/conduct books, 49, 77, 236, 297n61
fairs, 115, 117, 120, 125, 136, 145
fans, 125, 134, 149
Félibien, André, 278n53
femininity, feminine, 14–15, 48, 61, 66, 68, 70–1, 74, 77, 83, 95, 131, 142, 187–8, 208, 221, 234, 236–7, 242
fête galante, 73–4, 76–7, 125
Fielding, Henry, 115–9, 142, 148, 158
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, 118–9, Fig. 78
Of the Luxury of the English; and a Description of Ranelagh Cardens and Vauxhall, in a letter from a Foreigner to his Friend in Paris, 115
Financial Revolution, 27
Flemish art, 52–4, 57
see also Netherlandish art
flowers, 65–6, 140
Foldsone, John, 267
fops, 49, 57, 60, 61, 68, 77, 161, 251
see also effeminacy
fortune tellers, 145–6
Foundling Hospital, 2, 159–176, 179, 188, 193, 199, 228
France, 73–4, 77, 95, 153–4, 161, 195, 259, 262
art, 52–4, 94–5, 142
gardens, 106
Fraser, David, 239
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 110, 127, 150
Pavilion, 149–50, 152, 155
Free Society of Artists associated for the Relief of Distressed Brethren, their Widows and Orphans, 176
Freeport, Sir Andrew, 37, 73
‘Fresnoy’, 263–6, 272–3, 299n32
Gainsborough, Thomas, 257, 266
gambling, gaming, 60, 81, 88, 222
see also cards
Garrick, David, 152
paintings of, 191, 201, 257–8
Gay, John, 287n65
Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 269
gender, 13, 62, 70, 88, 186
see also effeminacy and femininity, feminine and masculinity, masculine
Gentleman’s Magazine, 115, 142, 148, 208, 240
George I, King, 38
George III, King, 192, 239, 259–65, 269, 272
Gerard, Alexander, 184, 218–9, 232, 243
Gilpin, Sawrey, 267
Glorious Revolution, 27, 29
God, 6–7, 9–10, 63, 173, 221, 233, 238
Godolphin, Sidney, 1st Earl of, 41–3
Goldsmith, Oliver, 120
Grafton, Duke of, 28
Granby, Marquis of, 203, 213
grand style/manner, 150, 172, 179–80, 186, 189, 198–9, 203, 211, 213, 255–6, 268–9, 274
see also history painting
Gravelot, Hubert François (Bourguignon)
Head-piece for The Adieu to the Spring-Gardens, 125, 127, 129, 131, Fig. 36
Henry V at Agincourt (after Hayman), Fig. 54
Greece, ancient, 7, 9, 20, 23, 25, 118, 184
philosophers, 4, 12, 16
see also antiquity and classical, classicism
Greenwich Fair, 117
Gribelin, Simon
Alexander before the Tent of Darius (after Le Brun), Fig. 71
Judgement of Hercules (after Mattheis), Fig. 16
Grignion, Charles
Frontispiece and tailpiece of A Catalogue of the . . . Society of Artists of Great-Britain (after Hogarth), 251, Figs. 82, 83
The Genius of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Relieving the Distressed. Head-piece to A Catalogue of the . . . Society of Artists of Great-Britain (after Wale), Fig. 63
Madamoiselle Catherina (after Hayman), Fig. 50
A Perspective View of the Founding Hospital, with Emblematic Figures (after Wale), Figs. 55, 56
Grosley, Pierre, 199
Grub Street, 2, 110, 247, 250
Gwynn, John, 175
Habermas, Jürgen, 27–8, 46, 114, 155
Halifax, Lord, 28, 41, 300n35
Hallé, Noël, 294nl05
Hamilton, Gavin, 292n75
Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus, 255–6, Fig. 84
Hamilton, Gawen, 98
A Conversation of Virtuosis at the Kings Armes (A Club of Artists), 98–9, Fig. 29
Handel, George Frederick, 111–2
Royal Fireworks Music, 114, 115
‘Harebrain, Will’, 248
Harris, Charles, 225
Harris, M.
Vauxhall Fan, 129, 131, 286n48, 287n52, Figs. 40, 41
Hartley, David, 54, 114
Hayes, Daniel, 101–2
Hayman, Francis, 138–9, 142, 148–50, 154–5, 175, 190, 199, 206, 213
Britannia Distributing Laurels, 191–2, 198
Country Dancers round the Maypole, 141, Fig. 47
Fairies Dancing on the Green by Moonlight, 147
The Finding of Moses in the Bullrushes, 164, 170–3, 187, Fig. 59
The Fortune Teller, or Casting the Coffee Grounds, 145, Fig. 51
Garrick as Richard III, 191
Henry V at Agincourt, 153, Fig. 54
Lord Clive Receiving the Homage of the Nabob, 193–8, 200, 202–3, 205, Fig. 70
Madamoiselle Catherina, 144, Fig. 50
The Man and his Two Wives, 147
May-Day or the Milkmaid’s Garland, 139, 141, 142, Fig. 46
The Play at See-Saw, 146, Fig. 52
The Play of Cricket, 147
The Play of Skittles, 142–3, 147, Fig. 48
The Play Scene from ‘Hamlet’, 150–2, Fig. 53
Players on Bagpipes and Hautboys, 139
Stealing a Kiss, 147, 288n72
The Surrender of Montreal to General Amherst, 193, 195–9, 200, 202–3, 205, Fig. 69
The Triumph of Britannia, 191, 194, 198, Fig. 68
The Wapping Landlady and the Tars who are just Come Ashore, 139, 143, 147, Fig. 49
Haywood, Eliza
The Wife, 236
hedonism, 12, 77
Heemskerk II, Egbert van, 51
Tavern Scene, Fig. 11
hegemony, 14, 25, 187, 259
Hercules, 6, 54, 63–5, 181, 183, 203–5, 228, 230
heroism, heroes, 3, 18, 105, 154–5, 169–70, 197, 200, 203–4, 206, 209, 213–4, 216
heroines, 187, 189
hierarchies, hierarchy, 4, 13, 40, 43, 74, 86, 123, 169, 213, 227, 231
and art, 2, 16, 171, 230, 240, 244, 269
Highmore, Joseph
The Angel Appearing to Hagar and Ishmael, 164, 172–3, Fig. 60
history painting, 3, 10, 19, 45, 150, 154–5, 162, 165, 171–2, 179–81, 183–7, 190–214, 216, 227–8, 244, 247, 251, 265, 269, 275
Hoare, William
Dr. Oliver and Mr. Peirce Examining Patients at the Bath Hospital, 257, Fig. 85
Hobbes, Thomas, 22
Hogarth, William, 2, 57, 78–105, 165, 175, 231, 240, 242, 244, 270, 287n58
An Assembly at Wanstead House, 90
Beer Street, 290n24
The Beggar’s Opera, 94
Calais Gate, or The Roast Beef of Old England, 161
Frontispiece and tailpiece of A Catalogue of the Society of Artists of Great-Britain, 251, Figs. 82, 83
The Cholmondeley Family, 89
Falstaff Examining his Recruits, 94
The Harlot’s Progress, 79
The Jones Family, 90, 137–8, Fig. 26
Lord Hervey and his Friends, 89
Marriage A-la-Mode, 215
A Midnight Modern Conversation, 79–81, 215, Fig. 23
Moses Brought before Pharaoh’s Daughter, 164, 170–3, 187, Fig. 58
The Rake’s Progress, 79, 81, 104, 108, Figs. 21, 22
Southwark Fair, 117, Fig. 35
The Wollaston Family, 84–90, 92–94, 283n18, Fig. 25
Homer, 255
Hone, Nathaniel, 266
Hôpital des Enfants Trouvés, 161
Hopkins, Thomas, 28
hospitals, 158, 176
see also Foundling Hospital
Houston, Richard, 207, 293n96
Hughes, John, 36
Hume, David, 84, 188, 197–8, 209
Essays Moral, Political and Literary, 157, 237–8, 243
Treatise on Human Nature, 160, 169, 202, 297n77
hunt, hunting, 59, 61, 62, 65, 66, 99, 222
Hutcheson, Francis, 98, 102, 105, 233–4
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, 82–7
Idler, 254, 269
imitation, 22, 89, 220–1
art, 171–2, 223
nature, 248, 254
imperialism, 195
Incorporated Society of Artists see Society of Artists of Great Britain
Ireland, 100
Italy, 95
art, 15–17, 53, 254
Jacobsen, Theodore, 160
Jaffer, Meer, 194–5
Johnson, Samuel, 104, 175
jokes, 89–93, 143, 148
Jones, Robert, 90
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 188, 219, 222, 233–4, 297n66
Kauffmann, Angelica, 266
Kingston, Duke of, 28
Kirkall, Elisha
Frontispiece to The Basset-Table. A Comedy, 90, Fig. 27
Kit-cat Club, see clubs
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 12, 29, 36–7, 100, 102
Joseph Addison, 32, Fig. 4
Sir Richard Steele, 32, Fig. 5
Thomas Pelham Holies, Duke of Newcastle and Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln, 38–40, Fig. 7
La Bruyère, Jean de, 71
landscape, 49, 62–3, 65, 74, 134, 229, 256, 275
roundels, 162, 165
Laroon, Marcellus (the Younger), 102–4, 284–5n51
A Nobleman’s Levee, Fig. 32
Lauron, Marcellus (Laroon the Elder), 51
Brothel Scene, Fig. 10
Le Brun, Charles
Alexander before the Tent of Darius, 196–7, Fig. 71
Lennox, Charlotte, 234
Leonardo da Vinci, 296n46
Licensing Act, 27
Lincoln, Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of, 38–40
Lloyds Evening Post, and British Chronicle, 266–7
Locke, John, 26, 31, 38, 216–8, 229
Lockman, John, 110–2, 115, 118–21, 124, 127–8, 134, 138, 149
London Chronicle, 254
Loveday of Caversham, John, 172–3
Luttrell, Henry, 263
Luxborough, Lady Henrietta, 124
luxury, 2, 14, 48–50, 54, 57, 65–8, 70, 73, 76–9, 82–4, 88–9, 93, 95–6, 102, 106, 116, 118, 143, 147, 157, 180, 184–5, 231, 237–8
Lynch, James J., 152
‘Mac-Sturdy, Hercules’, 121–4, 127
Mandeville, Bernard
critics of, 82
Fable of the Bees, 3, 4, 13, 22, 37, 78, 84, 96, 104, 118, 171–2, 180, 272, 276
on art, 14–19
manners, 4, 12, 18, 21–2, 26–7, 30, 36, 43, 46, 48–9, 86, 94, 131, 220, 235, 280n21
market, marketplace, 1, 4, 19, 22, 26, 28, 30, 36, 42–3, 88, 104, 120, 122, 158, 199, 214, 230, 255, 274, 276
art, 73–4, 178, 251, 277n5, 296n49
Marlborough, Duke of, 29, 41
Marlow, William, 267
Martin, David, 267
Martin, Elias, 246
The Cast Room at the Royal Academy, 244, Fig. 81
masculinity, masculine, 48, 51, 53, 60–2, 66, 70–2, 99, 104, 181, 186–8, 202, 206, 208, 221–2, 224
masquerades, 116, 121, 123, 135, 285n8, 287n54
masks, 21–2, 121–2
Mattheis, Paolo de
Judgement of Hercules, 6, 63, 64, 203, Fig. 16
May Day, maypole, 139–41, 147, 161
Meisel, Martin, 195
Mercier, Philip, 73–4, 77, 81
A Conversation in a Park, 74, Fig. 19
The Gaming Table, 81, Fig. 24
The Sense of Sight, 216, Fig. 77
Sir John Brownlow, Viscount Tyrconnel and his Family in the Grounds of Belton House, 76, Fig. 20
Sir Thomas Samwell and his Friends, 100, 102, Fig. 30
Mercury, 81
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 211
Middlesex Journal; or, Chronicle of Liberty, 263–4
Millar, John, 236
miniatures, 74, 87
Monamy, Peter, 138
Moreland, Sir Samuel, 106
Mortimer, John, 300n35
Moser, George Michael, 240
Mount, Harry, 52, 278n58, 296n46, 299n15
Muller, Johann Sebastian
A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens, Shewing at one View the disposition of the whole Garden (after Wale), Fig. 33
The Triumphal Arches, Mr. Handels Statue etc. in the South Walk of Vauxhall Gardens (after Wale), Fig. 44
A View of the Temple of Comus etc. in Vauxhall Gardens (after Canaletto), Fig. 42
music, 54, 57, 107, 110–2, 114, 131, 134, 143, 150, 184, 243
National Debt, 27
nationalism, patriotism, 48, 95, 116, 153, 158–9, 188, 206, 260, 263, 299n11
neo platonism, 9
Netherlandish, 95
art, 79, 125, 239
see also Dutch and Flemish art
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of, 38–40
Newton, Isaac, 97, 226, 228, 230, 232–3
North Briton, 262
Paine, Thomas, 248
Paris Salons, 259
Parsons, William, 196–7
passions, 1, 9, 13, 30, 47–8, 57, 71–2, 81, 102, 112, 147, 149, 154, 169–70, 222, 235, 238, 242–3, 250
Paton, Richard, 267
patriotism, see nationalism, patriotism
patronage, 179, 190, 247
political, 23, 32, 41–2
patrons, 110, 137, 161
art, 50, 57, 65, 67, 72, 84, 88–90, 94–96, 98, 173, 180, 202, 230, 269, 274
Paulson, Ronald, 50, 89, 104
Pendarves, Mary, 87
Penny, Edward, 207, 213, 240, 247, 266, 270, 300–1n46
The Death of General Wolfe, 207–9, 212, Fig. 74
The Marquis of Granby Relieving a Sick Soldier, 199–205, 259, 293n96, Fig. 72
Pepys, Samuel, 106–7, 114
philanthropy, 158, 176, 178–9, 199
see also benevolence
Phillips, Charles, 97
A Tea Party at Lord Harrington’s House, 98, Fig. 28
philosophers, 2, 9, 10, 12, 19, 78, 118, 188
see also individual philosophers
philosophy, 1, 7, 11–13, 22–3, 25, 30–1, 61–2, 64–5, 84, 171, 202, 216, 237
natural, 225–6, 228–36, 238
Pine, Robert Edge, 300n35
plants, 65–6
Plato, 23
pleasure, 9, 11–12, 14, 17, 31, 43, 47, 49, 52–3, 57, 60–1, 64–5, 72, 79, 83, 86, 88, 106–56, 170
Pocock, John, 23, 36, 225
policing, 110–11
politics, politicians, 1, 3, 25–31, 62, 78, 86, 118, 155, 262–3, 289n88
see also Tories, Whigs
Pope, Alexander, 88, 284n55
Poussin, Nicolas, 170–1, 186–9, 230
Priestley, Joseph, 235, 246
Pringle, Sir John, 207–9
prints, print making, 74, 84, 93, 174, 231, 255, 288n40, 293n96
propaganda, 29, 195
prostitutes, 108, 110, 112, 122
Public Advertiser, 248–50, 257, 260, 269, 272
Pulteney, Sir William, 28
Quicke, Andrew, 41, 42, 45–6, 50, 281n44
Ramano, M. (pseud, of Bickman, q.v.)
Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, 127–9, Fig. 37
Ramsay, Allan, 299n16, n23
Ranelagh Gardens, 115, 117–18
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), 152, 180, 186, 230
Rapin, René, 91
Ravenet, Simon, The Triumph of Britannia (after Hayman), Fig. 68
Ray, John, 51
Read, Katherine, 267
religion, 1, 12, 17, 71, 119, 140, 159, 173, 232–3, 235, 238
see also Bible and God
Rembrandt van Rijn
Syndics of the Cloth Drapers’ Guild, 42
Renaissance, 21, 32, 152, 181
republic, classical, 1, 13, 19, 157, 231
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 240, 254–6, 259–60, 264, 266, 269–70, 273–4
Richardson, Jonathan, 72, 98, 154, 211, 186
Essay on the Theory of Painting, 31–2
Two Discourses, 150, 289n95
Richardson, Samuel
Pamela, 138, 157
Ripa, Cesare
Iconologia, 58–9
Roberts, Henry
The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vauxhall Gardens (after Wale), Fig. 67
Robinson, Matthew, 98
Rome, 7, 186
ancient, 23, 25, 186, 268
see also classical, classicism
Romney, George, 207
Rooker, Edward
A View of the Centre Cross Walk etc. in Vauxhall Gardens (after Canaletto), Fig. 43
Roubiliac, Louis François
George Frederick Handel, 112, 251, Fig. 34
Rouquet, Jean André
The Present State of the Arts in England, 163–5
Royal Academy of Art, 3, 180, 207, 212, 240, 242, 246, 259–70, 272–5
Royal Exchange, 43, 95
Rubens, Sir Peter Paul
Garden of Love, 54
rustic, rusticity, 6, 47, 60–1, 66, 90, 131, 142, 145, 149
Rysbrack, John Michael, 162, 173, 290n31
St James’s Chronicle, 247, 249, 251, 255
St Martin’s Lane Academy, 93, 112, 175, 240, 242, 244, 262
satire, 51, 57, 89, 93, 94, 104, 121, 124, 127, 215, 250
Schalcken, Gottfried, 215
science, see philosophy, natural
Scots Magazine, 137
sculpture, 112, 162, 174–5, 186, 216, 218
in paintings, 65, 70, 161–2, 216, 218, 221–5, 242
Seaton, John Thomas, 267
sensuality, 54, 58, 106, 120, 181, 219
sex, eroticism, 51, 59–61, 70, 74, 79, 81, 90, 107, 112, 121, 137, 141–2, 147, 181, 183–4, 186, 243
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of, 3–7, 9–14, 16–26, 30–1, 96, 102, 171, 197, 220, 230–1, 234, 237, 239
Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 6, 20, 27, 237
The Moralists, 20, 61–2
influence of, 82, 169–71, 269
Judgement of Hercules, 63–5, 203–5, 228, 230
on art and aesthetics, 52–3, 155, 181, 228–9, 242, 254–5, 269
on politics, 39, 172
paintings of, see Closterman
Second Characters, 21
Shakespeare, William, 149–55, 190
Shevelow, Kathryn, 14, 70
Smith, Adam, 105
Theory of Moral Sentiments, 197, 205, 235, 237, 290n11, 293n91, 294n105, 298n82
The Wealth of Nations, 237
Smith, George, 248
Society of Arts (Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), 175–6, 178
Society of Artists of Great Britain, 176–8, 180–1, 183, 186–7, 199, 201, 205, 207, 214, 242, 248, 251, 255, 257, 261, 263, 270
Socrates, 7, 11, 186, 229
Spectator, 29–30, 36–7, 40, 46–7, 49, 51, 60, 68, 71, 73, 96, 97
Spring Gardens, Charing Cross, see Society of Artists of Great Britain
Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, see Vauxhall Gardens
Stallybrass, Peter, 120, 136, 139
Staves, Susan, 45, 96
Steele, Sir Richard, 29–32, 36–8, 49, 92–3, 96
on clubs, 40
on history painting, 203
on the Dutch, 51
on wine, 46–7
paintings of, 34, 41
stock market, 27
Strange, Robert, 267
Stubbs, George, 242
Sunderland, Lady, 87
Swift, Jonathan, 89
sympathy, 11, 25, 26, 86, 102, 105, 155, 157–213, 231, 233, 235, 237
Tatler, 29–30, 40, 46, 49, 50, 70, 72, 96, 203, 292n66
tea, 67–72, 84, 86, 88
The Tea-Table, 68, Fig. 18
Temple, Sir William, 51
Teniers, David, 54
theatre, 28, 71, 87, 97, 106, 115, 116–17, 152, 154, 190, 199, 257, 286n21
theatricality, 20–2, 36, 46, 86, 90–1, 93, 201
Thornhill, Sir James, 240
Andrew Quicke in conversation with the 1st Earl of Godolphin, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele and the artist, 40–7, 50, 281n52, Figs. 8, 9
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 181
Tonson, Jacob, 37
Tories, 23, 29, 41, 43, 50, 99
‘Toupee, S.’, 137, 138, 148
town, 28, 70, 86, 100, 117
trees, 6–7, 65, 109, 116, 121–2, 131, 142, 147
The Turkish Paradise or Vauxhall Gardens, 108–10
Turnbull, George, 170–1, 184, 186, 193–4, 214, 220–1, 228–30, 232, 290n39
Tyers, Jonathan, 2, 108–11, 114–15, 121–2, 125, 128–9, 131, 134, 136–7, 147, 155, 190, 199, 285n16
and Hogarth, 287n58
Van Aken, Joseph, 57, 72, 79
Elegant Company on a Terrace, 58–60, 66, 74, 88, 125 Fig. 14
An English Family at Tea, 66, 71–3, Fig. 17
A Sportsman and Man of Fashion 61–6, 70, Fig. 15
Van Dyck, Sir Anthony, 9, 40, 242
Lamentation, 211
Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart, 9–10
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, with Sir Philip Mainwaring, 280n37
Unknown Gentleman, 32, Fig. 6
Vanbrugh, Sir John, 29, 38
‘Varnish, Paul’, 272–3
Vaux Hall, Fig. 38
Vauxhall Gardens, 2, 106–56, 162, 179–80, 184, 190–1, 197, 199, 265, 267
Vertue, George, 54, 84–5, 87, 93, 95, 173
Vivares, Francis
The Fortune Teller, or Casting the Coffee Grounds (afte Hayman), Fig. 51
Wale, Samuel, 125, 131
A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens, Shewing at one View the disposition of the whole Garden, 109, Fig. 33
The Genius of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Relieving the Distressed. Head-piece to A Catalogue of the . . . Society of Artists of Great-Britain, 176, Fig. 63
The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vauxhall Gardens, 191, Fig. 67
A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital, with Emblematic Figures, I and II, 161–2, Figs. 55, 56
The Triumphal Arches, Mr. Handels Statue etc. in the South Walk of Vauxhall Gardens, 134, Fig. 44
Walpole, Horace, 124, 185
Walpole, Sir Robert, 28, 38, 128
war, 153, 158, 191–2, 199, 207–9
army, military, 23, 102, 154, 192, 196, 198, 201–4, 213
see also heroism and history painting and nationalism
Watteau, Jean Antoine, 54, 73–4, 76–7, 95, 100, 125, 289n89
Webb, Daniel, 187–8, 295n10
West, Benjamin, 180, 185–8, 206, 213, 247, 255, 265–6, 292n79
Angelica and Medoro, 181, Fig. 64
Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, 187–9, 216, 268, Fig. 66
The Continence of Scipio, 186
Cymon and Iphigenia, 181
The Death of General Wolfe, 207, 209–12, 216, 272, Fig. 75
The Departure of Regulus from Rome, 268–9, Fig. 86
The Fright of Astyanax, 186
The Judgement of Hercules, 183
Jupiter and Europa, 181
Leonidas and Cleombrutus, 186
Pylades and Orestes, 186
Pyrrhus, when a Child, brought before Glaucias, 187
Venus and Cupid, 181, 183–4, Fig. 65
Wharton, Lord, 41
Whigs, 3, 23, 25, 28–31, 36, 38, 41, 43, 49, 188
White, Allon, 120, 136, 139
Wilkes, John, 262–3, 300n35
William III, King, 23, 29
Wills, James, 299n32
Little Children brought unto Christ, 164, 172–3, Fig. 61
Wilmot, John, 2nd Earl of Rochester, 51
Wilson, Richard
View of the Foundling Hospital, 165, Fig. 62
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 222
wine, see drink, drunkenness
Wolfe, James, 207–13
Wollaston, William, 96
Woodbridge, Dudley, 96
Worsdale, James
The Limerick Hell Fire Club, 100, Fig. 31
Wright, Joseph, of Derby, 3, 247, 267
An Academy by Lamplight, 225, 231, 239–46, 270, Fig. 80
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 225–8, 231–2, 234–9, 270, Fig. 79
The Farrier’s Shop, 270, Fig. 87
A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, 225–8, 231–7, 239, 270, Fig. 78
Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight, 214–24, 225, 231, 239, 270, Fig. 76
Wright, Richard, 267
Xenophon, 23, 278n38
Zincke, C. F., 87
Zoffany, Johann, 203, 242, 267
David Garrick in ‘The Farmer’s Return’, 201, 257–8, Fig. 73