Henry Raeburn: Context, Reception and Reputation - Hardcover

Coltman, Viccy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748654844 ISBN 13: 9780748654840

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The first illustrated scholarly work devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) is especially well known in Scotland as the portrait painter of members of the Scottish Enlightenment. However, outside Scotland, the artist rarely makes more than a fleeting appearance in survey books about portraiture. Ten international scholars recover Raeburn from his artistic isolation by looking at his local and international reception and reputation, both in his lifetime and posthumously. It focuses as much on Edinburgh and Scotland as on metropolitan markets and cosmopolitan contexts. Previously unpublished archival material is brought to light for the first time, especially from the Innes of Stow papers and the archives of the dukes of Hamilton.

About this title

About the Author

Viccy Coltman is at University of Edinburgh. Stephen Lloyd is an Art Historian.

Review

"Overall, these essays offer thoughtful and often provocative assessments of Raeburn's art, the context of his times and his place in British cultural history. They attest to the current vitality of Raeburn studies-scholarship soon to be augmented by a modern, full-scale catalogue of Raeburn's paintings." -- William S. Rodner, ournal of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748654844
• ISBN 13: 9780748654840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352