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1st Edition

Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters (ES 6-vol. set)

Edited By Kozo Shioe Copyright 2012

2091 Pages

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- Following the style of the most famous book of Renaissance art history, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, this is one of the most comprehensive books of British art history covering the early period to the early nineteenth century. - Alain Cunningham compiled this monumental work with the support of his contemporaries, such as John Gibson... Read more

Table of Contents

Volume 1: (2nd ed. 1830, c.362pp + 10 b/w plates)

The Early Painters

William Hogarth

Richard Wilson

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Thomas Gainsborough

Volume 2: (2nd ed. 1830, c.353pp + 7 b/w plates)

Benjamin West

James Barry

William Blake

John Opie

George Morland

Edward Bird

Henry Fuseli

Volume 3: (1st ed. 1830, c.371pp + 9 b/w plates)

Grinling Gibbons

Caius Gabriel Cibber

Louis Francis Roubiliac

Joseph Wilton

Thomas Banks

Joseph Nollekins

John Bacon

Anne Damer

John Flaxman

Volume 4: (1st ed. 1831, c.356pp + 8 b/w plates)

William of Wykeham

Inigo Jones

Sir Christopher Wren

Sir John Vanbrugh

James Gibbs

William Kent

Earl of Burlington

Sir William Chambers

Volume 5: (1st ed. 1833, c.315pp + 4 b/w plates)

George Jameson

Allan Ramsay

George Romney

Alexander Runciman

John Singleton Copley

John Hamilton Mortimer

Sir Henry Raeburn

John Hoppner

William Owen

George Henry Harlow

Richard Parkes Bonington

Volume 6: (1st ed. 1833, c.334pp + 4 b/w plates)

Richard Cosway

David Allan

James Northcote

Sir George Howland Beaumont

Sir Thomas Lawrence

John Jackson

Henry Liverseege

James Burnet

Editor(s)

Biography

Kozo Shioe

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