Henry Raeburn: Critical Reception and International Reputation

Coltman, Viccy

ISBN 10: 0748654836 / ISBN 13: 9780748654833

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2012

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2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) is especially well known in Scotland as the portrait painter of members of the Scottish Enlightenment. This illustrated scholarly work is devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter. It includes chapters that look at different aspects of Raeburn's professional career. Editor(s): Coltman, Viccy; Lloyd, Stephen. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; ACQ; AGB; AJCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 172 x 23. Weight in Grams: 990. Context, Reception and Reputation. 352 pages. Editor(s): Coltman, Viccy; Lloyd, Stephen. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) is especially well known in Scotland as the portrait painter of members of the Scottish Enlightenment. This illustrated scholarly work is devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter. It includes chapters that look at different aspects of Raeburn's professional career. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; ACQ; AGB; AJCP. Dimension: 243 x 172 x 23. Weight: 990. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Henry Raeburn: Critical Reception and International Reputation
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748654836
• ISBN 13: 9780748654833
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An edited volume 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. A review of the most recent exhibition devoted to the artist held in Edinburgh and London during 1997/8, noted that it wears the aspect of a closure rather than a new dawn’ in Raeburn studies, with the painter being shown ‘in solitary splendour’.
This volume seeks to 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 will be brought to light for the first time, especially from the Innes of Stow papers and the archives of the dukes of Hamilton.
Key Features
* 14 chapters each looking at different aspects of Raeburn's professional career
* International scholars contributing to Raeburn studies for the first time
* Interdisciplinary perspectives setting a new agenda for Raeburn studies
* Traditional art analysis integrated with cultural, social, political and economic history
* Includes much unpublished archival material
KeywordsScotland, Raeburn, Enlightenment, portraiture, art, patronage, taste, collecting

About the Authors

Dr Viccy Coltman is a Senior Lecturer and Head of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, where she specialises in visual and material culture in the long eighteenth century. The author of two books and one edited book, she is currently working on a study of Scots in metropolitan, cosmopolitan and imperial contexts from 1745 to 1832.

Dr Stephen Lloyd is Curator of the Derby Collection at Knowsley Hall on Merseyside. He was Senior Curator at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (1993-2009) and President of ICOM's International Committee for Museums and Collections of Fine Arts (2004-2010). He has authored many exhibition catalogues for the National Galleries of Scotland, is co-author of Henry Raeburn and his Printmakers (2006) and The Intimate Portrait: Portrait Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels fromRamsay to Lawrence (2008-9).