Product Details: English as Collectors
| Author: | Frank Herrmann |
| Format: | Hardcover: 461 pages. |
| Publisher: | Oak Knoll Pr (10/01/1999) |
| ISBN: | 1585740004 |
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Publisher Notes: English as Collectors
Illustrations viii Acknowledgements xi In Introductory Updating to the Second Edition xiv Introduction 1. Prefatory 3 2. Historical 8 3. The Acquisitive Impulse 20 4. Sources of Supply 23 5. The Growth of Expertise 33 6. The Economic Factor 38 7. The Literature 42 8. The Emergence of the Official Collector 45 Part 1 From the Beginnings to 1824 The Great Trio: Charles I, Arundel and Buckingham
by Dr Gustav Waagen57 The First Collectors
by Mrs Anna Jameson65 Collecting as a Fashion: Mrs Jameson surveys the Eighteenth Century
by Mrs Anna Jameson68 Dr Waagen Again
by Dr Gustav Waagen72 An Exemplary Grand Tour
by James Lees-Milne74 Aedes Walpolianae
by Horace Walpole80 Horace Walpole's Journal of Visits to Country Seats (Melbury, Burghley) 92 Principles of Sculpture Collecting
by James Kennedy96 Collectors First Collected
by Thomas Martyn99 The Resta Drawings for Sale
by John Talman107 Reynolds Reports to the Duke of Rutland
by Sir Joshua Reynolds112 Strawberry Hill
by R. W. Ketton-Cremer116 A Case of Family Collecting: The Earls of Radnor
by Helen Matilda, Countess of Radnor122 The Difficulties of Viewing Collections
by William T. Whitley125 The Vitturi Collection in English Hands
by William Buchanan127 Buchanan on the Orleans Collection
by William Buchanan133 The Orleans Dispersal: An Explanatory Postscript
by Frank Herrmann139 The Flemish Part of the Orleans Collection
by William Buchanan142 Dr Waagen Surveys the Post-Orleans Era
by Dr Gustav Waagen145 Dr Waagen on the Elgin Marbles 153 Lord Elgin's Rescue of the Sculptures from the Parthenon
by Sir Henry Ellis154 Fagan, an Early Importer
by William T. Whitley162 The Altieri Claudes
by William T. Whitley163 And a Postscript: The Altieri Claudes
by William T. Whitley166 Irvine reports to Buchanan from Italy
by William Buchanan167 Desenfans: The Amateur Professional
by William T. Whitley172 Desenfans tricked by Sir Joshua Reynolds
by William T. Whitley178 William Roscoe
by Hugh Macandrew, Michael Compton179 Roscoe Late in Life
by J. D. Passavant182 Waagen meets William Young Ottley
by Dr Gustav Waagen183 Ottley's Life as a Collector
by J. A. Gere186 Lawrence's Collection spurned
by George Redford189 Buchanan Himself at Work
by William Buchanan193 Pictures with Pedigrees ...
by Thomas Winstanley198 ... and Pictures without A.
by C. R. Carter201 Edward Solly
by Frank Herrmann202 The Remarkable Acquisition of Correggio's Education of Venus
by Mrs Anna Jameson208 The Beckford Collection sold
by George Redford210 Rogers on Fonthill Abbey
by Lady Bessborough218 Holkham Hall, 1833
by J. D. Passavant219 View before the Sale
by Dr Gustav Waagen224 The British Institution
by Dr Gustav Waagen226 An Extreme View quoted
by William T. Whitley230 Advertisement: Advice to Proprietors 232 Part 2 1824 and After The Changing Taste of Collectors
by John Steegman235 Prince Albert as Collector
by John Steegman239 Sir John Soane
by Camilla Tyler241 Sir Robert Peel
by Frank Herrmann246 The House of Samuel Rogers 'Athenaeum' 249 The Collection of Samuel Rogers
by Mrs Anna Jameson254 On the Hazards of showing one s Collection
by Rev. J. Maberley260 The Founding of the National Gallery
by William T. Whitley263 The Stowe Sale
by George Redford274 A Sidelight on Stowe
by Lord Hertford280 Lord Hertford and his Agent
by Lord Hertford282 The Taste for Objects d'Art
by John Steegman288 Official Collecting: The Soulages Collection purchased
by Frank Davis290 Sale of the Bernal Collection
by W. Roberts293 A Generous Donation
by W. Fox Strangways299 The Eastlakes on Tour
by Lady Elizabeth Eastlake302 The Great Manchester Exhibition - and the New Connoisseurship
by John Steegman312 The Northwick Collection
by George Redford320 An Early Turner Collector
by George Redford327 Lady Charlotte Schreiber from her Journals 329 A Picture Sale at Christie s (1887)
by George Redford343 The Hamilton Palace Collection
by George Redford348 On the Use of Photography in the Study of Painting
by Bernard Berenson353 The Wallace-Bagatelle Collection
by Germain Seligman354 The Rothschilds of Waddesdon Manor
by F. J. B. Watson361 The Sport of Collecting: The Dream Come True; Luxor; The Failure of an Amateur 'Scout'
by Sir Martin Conway365 The Great Exodus
by Sir Robert C. Witt373 Problems of Connoisseurship
by Max Friedlander377 The Tatton Turners
by A. C. R. Carter379 The Collection of Samuel Courtauld
by Anthony Blunt382 Collecting Costume
by Dr C. Willett Cunnington384 The Twentieth Century
by Frank Herrmann387 Sir Karl Parker: Survey of a Recent Stewardship
by J. Byam Shaw, Ian Robertson406 Filling the Gaps
by Sir John Rothenstein409 The Need for More 411 Sir William Burrell's Purchase Books (1911--1957)
by William Wells413 Select, Annotated Bibliography 418 Index 437
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