Author: Francis Russell
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Caitlin Blackwell
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791356631
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book focuses on the extraordinary Bute Collection at Mount Stuart and its illustrious history. John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, was one of history's most enthusiastic art collectors. As tutor to Prince George, Bute became indispensable to the royal household. Soon after his accession to the throne, the King made Bute Prime Minister--a career that was cut short after the Peace of Paris in 1763. Forced out of London by an angry mob, Bute retired to an estate at Luton, where he spent the rest of his years in private study and amassing a collection of 500 paintings, including major works by Venetian painters such as Tintoretto, Bordone, and Veronese. Bute had a special interest in Dutch and Flemish pictures, building the greatest collection of its kind in Britain. This book features over thirty masterpieces, mainly genre paintings and landscapes, and including jewel-like landscapes by Brueghel and Savery. The collection is housed at the Bute family's Scottish seat, Mount Stuart, on the Isle of Bute. Essays by leading scholars delve into the history of Bute's collection, focusing on his relationship with King George III, and his wide ranging passions, which resulted in rooms filled floor to ceiling with works of art.

Author: Peter David Garner Thomas
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719064296
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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George III was a high-profile and well-known character in British history whose policies have often been blamed for the loss of Britain's American colonies, around whom rages a perennial dispute over his aims: was he seeking to restore royal power or merely exercising his constitutional rights?

Author: Charlotte Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992985103
Category : Botanical gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: John Ingamells
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.

Author: Peter Collinson
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692412
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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This selection of letters sent by Peter Collinson between 1725 and 1768 includes letters sent to Albrecht von Haller, Alexander Colden, Arthur Dobbs, Benjamin Cook, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Gale, Benjamin Smithurst, Cadwallader Colden, Carl Linnaeus, Carlo Allioni, Caspar Wettstein, Charles Lennox (3rd Duke of Richmond), Charles Lyttelton (Bishop of Carlisle), Charles Wager, Christopher Jacob Trew, Edward Cave, Edward Wright, Emmanuel Mendes Da Costa, George Parker (2nd Earl Macclesfield), Gregory Demidoff, Henrietta Maria Goldsborough, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Henry Baker, Henry Clinton (9th Earl of Lincoln), Henry Fox (1st Baron Holland), Henry Hollyday, Jacob Theodore Klein, James Alexander, Jared Eliot, John Ambrose Beurer, John Bartram, John Blackburne, John Canton, John Custis, John Ellis, John Frederick Gronovius, John Hawkesworth, John Jacob Dillenius, John Kearsley, John Penn, John Player, John Russell (4th Duke of Bedford), John Stuart (3rd Earl of Bute), Joseph Breintnall, Joseph Hobson, Martin Folkes, Mary Collinson, Mary Lennox (Duchess of Richmond), Michael and Mary Russell, Mr. Leigh at Totridge, Peter Simon Pallas, Peter Templeman, Peter Thompson, Philip Southcote, Pieter Camper, Richard Richardson, Richard Walker, Samuel Brewer, Samuel Eveleigh, Hans Sloane, Thomas Birch, Thomas Clayton, Thomas Hay (8th Earl of Kinnoull), Thomas Pelham-Holles (1st Duke of Newcastle), Thomas Story, William Byrd II, William Pitt, William Villiers (3rd Earl of Jersey), and William Watson.

Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher:
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 954

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Author: Edmund Lodge
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Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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Author: Edmund LODGE (Norroy King of Arms.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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