Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London - Softcover

Bryant, Julius; Jenkins, Susan; Liedtke, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885444419 ISBN 13: 9781885444417

Publisher: American Federation of Arts, 2012

Synopsis

Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London accompanies the first tour of an important group of works from the Iveagh Bequest, a magnificent painting collection that resides at Kenwood House, a neoclassical villa in London. Donated to the nation by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927) and heir to the world’s most successful brewery, the collection was shaped by the tastes of the Belle Epoque—Europe’s equivalent to America’s Gilded Age—and reveal the earl’s taste for the portraiture, landscape, and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish works that could typically be found in English aristocratic collections. The publication includes an illustrated checklist of the works in the exhibition and texts by Guest Curator Susan Jenkins, Curator at English Heritage; Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria & Albert Museum and formerly Chief Curator at English Heritage; and Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings at

About this edition

• Publisher: American Federation of Arts
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1885444419
• ISBN 13: 9781885444417
• Binding: Flexibound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56
• Illustrator: B/w And Color Illustrations