Displaying 1 of 1 1979 Format: Book Author: Harris, John, 1931-2022, author. Title: The artist and the country house : a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 / John Harris. Publisher, Date: London : Sotheby Parke Bernet ; Totowa, N.J. : Available from Biblio Distribution Center, 1979. Description: xiii, 376 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm Summary: This book looks at the tradition of view painting, or estate portraiture, which began in the sixteenth century. It looks at the individual artists, their lives and works. Subjects: Landscape painting, British. Manors in art. Manors -- England -- In art. Country homes in art. Country homes -- England -- In art. Gardens in art. Gardens -- England -- In art. Landscape painting, English. Genre: Illustrated works. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 366) and index. Contents: Introduction: Continental precedents -- 1540 to the Commonwealth -- The Restoration and the Anglo-Netherlandish tradition -- Britannia Illustrata and the Knyff tradition -- The age of the estate cartographers and the garden conversations -- The country house and sporting art: John Wootton, Peter Tillemans and others -- George Lambert and the estate landscape painters -- Canaletto and the architectural topographers -- Gainsborough and the picturesque -- The art of Turner and Constable -- The unsophisticated view. LCCN: 80458959 ISBN: 0856670537 9780856670534 Other Number: 6199514 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 19360 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 760.0444 Harris Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
