The Intimate Portrait by Kim Sloan

The Intimate Portrait by Kim Sloan

This scholarly publication accompanies the first major exhibition held in Britain to focus on the more intimate types of Georgian and Regency portraiture. While oil paintings and sculpture dominated the public arena of portraiture, more private portraits were being created for domestic consumption and display. Nearly two hundred works, drawn from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Museum, by leading artists including Gainsborough, Ramsay, Wilkie and Lawrence, are illustrated and catalogued within thematic sections on self-portraits, depictions of family and friends and commissioned portraits of the rising middle classes and the celebrities of the day. The two introductory essays by the co-curators Stephen Lloyd and Kim Sloan discuss aspects of the intimacy in viewing.

Dr Stephen Lloyd is Senior Curator at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. He is the author of a number of publications for the National Galleries of Scotland, including Richard and Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion (1995); Raeburn's Rival: Archibald Skirving 1749-1819 (1999); as well as a series of catalogues on portrait miniatures.Dr Kim Sloan is the Francis Finlay Curator of the Enlightenment Gallery and Curator of British Drawings and Watercolours before 1880 at the British Museum, London. She is the author of a number of publications including A Noble Art: Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters c.1600-1800 (2000); Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the 18th Century editor with Andrew Burnett (2003); and A New World: England's First View of America (2007).

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ISBN 13	9781906270148
ISBN 10	1906270147
Title	The Intimate Portrait
Author	Kim Sloan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	National Galleries of Scotland
Year published	2008-12-01
Number of pages	272
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