Author: William Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Aleph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Mark Westgarth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000050629
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Get Book Here

Book Description
Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815–1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity markets. Set against the recent ‘art market turn’ in scholarly literature, this volume examines the role, activities, agency and influence of antique and curiosity dealers as they emerged in the opening decades of the nineteenth century. This study begins at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when dealers began their wholesale importations of historical objects; it closes during the 1850s, after which the trade became increasingly specialised, reflecting the rise of historical museums such as the South Kensington Museum (V&A). Focusing on the archive of the early nineteenth-century London dealer John Coleman Isaac (c.1803–1887), as well as drawing on a wide range of other archival and contextual material, Mark Westgarth considers the emergence of the dealer in relation to a broad historical and cultural landscape. The emergence of the antique and curiosity dealer was part of the rapid economic, social, political and cultural change of early nineteenth-century Britain, centred around ideas of antiquarianism, the commercialisation of culture and a distinctive and evolving interest in historical objects. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, histories of collecting, museum and heritage studies and nineteenth-century culture.

Author: Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 866

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: London Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 984

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 666

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 668

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Diana Davis
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066412
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Get Book Here

Book Description
An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 954

Get Book Here

Book Description