Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England

Name: Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England
Brand: Boydell Press
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By Robert Tittler

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While famous artists such as Holbein, Rubens, or Van Dyck are all known for their creative periods in England or their employment at the English court, they still had to make ends meet, as did the less well-known practitioners of their craft. This book, by one of the leading historians of Tudor and Stuart England, sheds light on the daily concerns, practices, and activities of many of these painters. Drawing on a biographical database comprising nearly 3000 painters and craftsmen - strangers and native English, Londoners and provincial townsmen, men and sometimes women, celebrity artists and 'mere painters' - this book offers an account of what it meant to paint for a living in early modern England. It considers the origins of these painters as well as their geographical location, the varieties of their expertise, and the personnel and spatial arrangements of their workshops. Engagingly written, the book captures a sense of mobility and exchange between England and the continent through the considerable influence of stranger-painters, undermining traditional notions about the insular character of this phase in the history of English art. By showing how painters responded to the greater political, religious, and economic upheavals of the time, the study refracts the history of England itself through the lens of this particular occupation.

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Number of Pages:: 304
Release Date:: 2022-02-10
Publication Date:: 2022-03-04
Publisher:: Boydell Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1783276630
ISBN13:: 9781783276639
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 622 g
Height:: 16.1 cm
Width:: 24 cm
Thickness:: 2.1 cm

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