Friendship and Loss in the Victorian Portrait - "May Sartoris" by Frederic Leighton (Paperback)

Previously announcedThis original and eloquent study brings Frederic Leighton's portrait of May Sartoris to life as an expression of the artist's remarkable friendship with May's mother, celebrated opera singer Adelaide Sartoris. The young Leighton frequented Adelaide's artistic and literary salon in Rome in the early 1850s, and was on intimate terms with her by the time he painted her daughter's likeness in England around 1860. Malcolm Warner places the work both within the tradition of British child portraiture since Joshua Reynolds and within its immediate biographical setting. Bringing together much new research into the circumstances of its creation, he suggests that its wistful mood and intimations of mortality reflect Adelaide Sartoris's melancholy temperament as well as Victorian views of childhood. Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Kimbell Masterpiece Series
Release date:	September 2009
First published:	September 2009
Authors:	Malcolm Warner
Dimensions:	235 x 191 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	88
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-12135-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Human figures depicted in art > Portraits in art Promotions
LSN:	0-300-12135-0
Barcode:	9780300121353

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