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William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds - The Anatomist and the Fine Arts (Hardcover)
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William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds - The Anatomist and the Fine Arts (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
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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 Enlightenment, including Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). He
quickly abandoned his studies in theology for Medicine and, in
1740, left Scotland for London where he steadily acquired a
reputation as an energetic and astute practitioner; he combined his
working life as an anatomist successfully with a wide range of
interests in natural history, including mineralogy, conchology,
botany and ornithology; and in antiquities, books, medals and
artefacts; in the fine arts, he worked with artists and dealers and
came to own a number of beautiful oil paintings and volumes of
extremely fine prints. He built an impressive school of anatomy and
a museum which housed these substantial and important collections.
William Hunter's life and work is the subject of this book, a
cultural-anthropological account of his influence and legacy as an
anatomist, physician, collector, teacher and demonstrator.
Combining Hunter's lectures to students of anatomy with his
teaching at the St Martin's Lane Academy, his patronage of artists,
such as Robert Edge Pine, George Stubbs and Johan Zoffany, and his
associations with artists at the Royal Academy of Arts, the book
positions Hunter at the very centre of artistic, scientific and
cultural life in London during the period, presenting a sustained
and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and
artists over the course of the long eighteenth century.
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