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The Stafford Gallery

The Greatest Art Collection of Regency London
  • ISBN-13: 9781916495753
  • Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
    Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
  • By Peter Humfrey
  • Price: AUD $139.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 22/10/2020
  • Format: Hardback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 352 pages Weight: 960g
  • Categories: Individual artists, art monographs [AGB]
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The book will provides the first detailed history of the Bridgewater collection. The story extends from the 3rd Duke of Bridgewaters purchases in Rome in the 1750s, then on to the major acquisitions of the 1790s (especially from the Orleans collection), then through the incorporation of the collection into the Stafford Gallery by the 2nd Marquess of Stafford (1st Duke of Sutherland), and finally to its reinstallation by Lord Francis Egerton in the new Bridgewater House in 1851. As well as providing a detailed account of the personalities and differing motives of three generations of collectors and owners, the book examines the ways in which the collection was arranged and displayed. It also discusses reactions to it by contemporaries, from sophisticated critics such as William Hazlitt, to the general public, and analyses major publications on it such as the four-volume illustrated catalogue by William Young Ottley of 1818. The illustrations will include many works sold from the collection aft er 1946 and now widely dispersed.

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