1st Edition

William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds The Anatomist and the Fine Arts

By Helen McCormack Copyright 2018
220 Pages 13 Color & 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 13 Color & 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 13 Color & 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East Calderwood, he matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1731 and was greatly influenced by some of the most important philosophers of the Scottish... Read more

Contents





Acknowledgements





Introduction: Art, Science, Curiosity and Commerce





Chapter One: Forming the Museum: Context and Chronology





Chapter Two: The Great Windmill Street Anatomy School and Museum





Chapter Three: Patronage and Patriots: Hunter and a National School of Artists





Chapter Four: Collecting Ambitions (1770-1783) The Grand Tour Paintings





Chapter Five: Pursuing the Imitation of Nature in and beyond the Royal Academy of Arts





Bibliography





Index

Biography

Helen McCormack is a Lecturer in Art, Design, History and Theory at Glasgow School of Art. She studied Art History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the History of Design and Material Culture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art, London. She was the David Carritt Scholar in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow where she completed her PhD on the subject of William Hunter as a collector of the fine arts.