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Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England (Hardcover)
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Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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A rare examination of the political, social, and economic contexts
in which painters in Tudor and Early Stuart England lived and
worked While famous artists such as Holbein, Rubens, or Van Dyck
are all known for their creative periods in England or their
employment at the English court, they still had to make ends meet,
as did the less well-known practitioners of their craft. This book,
by one of the leading historians of Tudor and Stuart England, sheds
light on the daily concerns, practices, and activities of many of
these painters. Drawing on a biographical database comprising
nearly 3000 painters and craftsmen - strangers and native English,
Londoners and provincial townsmen, men and sometimes women,
celebrity artists and 'mere painters' - this book offers an account
of what it meant to paint for a living in early modern England. It
considers the origins of these painters as well as their
geographical location, the varieties of their expertise, and the
personnel and spatial arrangements of their workshops. Engagingly
written, the book captures a sense of mobility and exchange between
England and the continent through the considerable influence of
stranger-painters, undermining traditional notions about the
insular character of this phase in the history of English art. By
showing how painters responded to the greater political, religious,
and economic upheavals of the time, the study refracts the history
of England itself through the lens of this particular occupation.
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