1st Edition
Godefridus Schalcken A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London
By Wayne Franits
Copyright 2018
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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In his own day, Godefridus Schalcken (1643—1706) was an internationally renowned Dutch painter, but little is known about the four years that he spent in London. Using newly discovered documents, this book provides the first comprehensive examination of Schalcken’s activities there. The author analyses Schalcken’s strategic appropriations of English styles, his attempts to exploit gaps in the art... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chap. 1: Haberdashers, Barristers, and a Young Musician; Situating Schalcken in Late Seventeenth-Century London, Chap. 2: Schalcken's Maecenas and the Court of William III, Chap. 3: Self-Portraiture as Self Promotion, Chap. 4: Schalcken's London-Period Genre Paintings, Chap. 5: Schalcken's London-Period History and Still-Life Paintings, Conclusion, Appendix, Critical Catalogue, Lost Paintings and Checklist, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Wayne Franits is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Syracuse University. Among his numerous publications are monographs on Dirck van Baburen and Johannes Vermeer and an edited volume of historiographical essays on Dutch seventeenth-century art.
