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Image, Identity and John Wesley - A Study in Portraiture (Hardcover)
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Image, Identity and John Wesley - A Study in Portraiture (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Methodist Studies Series
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The face of John Wesley (1703-91), the Methodist leader, became one
of the most familiar images in the English-speaking and
transatlantic worlds through the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. After the dozen or so painted portraits made during his
lifetime came numbers of posthumous portraits and moralising 'scene
paintings', and hundreds of variations of prints. It was calculated
that six million copies were produced of one print alone - an 1827
portrait by John Jackson R.A. as frontispiece for a hymn book.
Illustrated by nearly one hundred images, many in colour, with a
comprehensive appendix listing known Wesley images, this book
offers a much-needed comprehensive and critical survey of one of
the most influential religious and public figures of
eighteenth-century Britain. Besides chapters on portraits from the
life and after, scene paintings and prints, it explores aspects of
Wesley's (and Methodism's) attitudes to art, and the personality
cult which gathered around Wesley as Methodism expanded globally.
It will be of interest to art historians as a treatment of an
individual sitter and subject, as well as to scholars engaged in
Wesley and Methodist studies. It is also significant for the field
of material studies, given the spread and use of the image, on
artefacts as well as on paper.
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