Book

The Treasure houses of Britain : five hundred years of private patronage and art collecting / edited by Gervase Jackson-Stops.

Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 1985.

680 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Art patronage -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.

Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.

Country homes -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.

Manors -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Jackson-Stops, Gervase.

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Catalogue of a loan exhibition held at the National Gallery, Nov. 3, 1985- Mar. 16, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 664-673) and index.

Temples of the arts / Gervase Jackson-Stops -- The power house / Mark Girouard -- Portraiture and the country house / Oliver Millar -- The Englishman in Italy / Brinsley Ford -- The British as collectors / Francis Haskell -- The backward look / John Cornforth -- The last hundred years / Marcus Binney and Gervase Jackson-Stops -- From castle to country house : The Tudor Renaissance ; The Jacobean Long Gallery ; Anglo-Dutch taste and restoration opulence ; Triumph of the baroque -- The grand tour : Lord Burlington and the Palladian revolution ; Souvenirs of Italy ; The sculpture rotunda ; Augustan taste ; The Dutch cabinet ; Landscape and the picturesque -- The gentleman collector : The country house library ; Chinoiserie and porcelain ; The sporting life ; The Waterloo Gallery -- The romantic vision : The Highlands and the Victorian spirit ; The pre-Raphaelite era ; Edwardian elegance and the continuing tradition ; Epilogue : Life in the country house.

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