The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life

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'The Conversation Piece' is an intriguing contradiction - the high-life group, but caught informally, off-guard. Popular in 17th-century Dutch painting, the genre was extended to include sporting events and 'Grand Tourists', and reached its apogee in the 18th-century in the masterpieces created by Johann Zoffany for his English patrons, including George III.

This new publication, the first on this subject for over thirty years, presents early Dutch and French genre paintings against their successors in the ...

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Overview

'The Conversation Piece' is an intriguing contradiction - the high-life group, but caught informally, off-guard. Popular in 17th-century Dutch painting, the genre was extended to include sporting events and 'Grand Tourists', and reached its apogee in the 18th-century in the masterpieces created by Johann Zoffany for his English patrons, including George III.

This new publication, the first on this subject for over thirty years, presents early Dutch and French genre paintings against their successors in the informal portraiture of Stubbs and Hogarth, as well as iconic works by Zoffany. It provides a unique opportunity to connect the study of 'the conversation' in 18th-century English art to its 17th-century European predecessors.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781905686070
  • Publisher: Royal Collection Publications
  • Publication date: 6/15/2009
  • Pages: 192
  • Product dimensions: 8.20 (w) x 9.80 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Desmond Shawe-Taylor is Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures and was formerly Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery. His publications include The Georgians: Eighteenth-Century Portraiture and Society (1990) and most recently Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting (2007).

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Table of Contents

In Custom and in Ceremony: The Meaning of the Conversation Piece 7

1 Charles I (1600-1649) 22

2 The Dutch Republic (1648-1714) 22

3 Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751) 60

4 George III (1739-1820) 98

5 George IV (1762-1830) 138

6 Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Albert (1819-1861) 160

Further Reading 183

Picture Credits 186

Index 187

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