First published in 1997, this volume will revolutionise the study
of watercolour painting in Britain. The Royal Watercolour Society
archive constitutes a major academic resource covering two hundred
years of the history of watercolour painting in Britain. The
rediscovery in 1980 of 'the Jenkins Papers', the early records of
the Society, was a major find for the history of British art. The
archives are substantial and remarkably comprehensive. Minutes of
annual general meetings, Council and committees, are all intact;
extraordinarily, the Society's catalogues for its own exhibitions
have also survived, with details of who bought the pictures and for
how much. It contains biographical information on several hundred
artists who practised throughout the United Kingdom from the end of
the eighteenth century to the present day. Prepared by the
archivist to the RWS, Simon Fenwick, this is not just a work of
reference, but an absorbing book to dip into again and again. The
Society of Painters in Water Colours, as it was then titled, was
founded in 1804 to promote the interests of painters using
watercolour and to provide a platform for members to sell their
work. As such, its archives provide an excellent insight into the
evolving debate on the status of the artists and their medium, and
an authoritative account of the way in which watercolour paintings
were sold, distributed and acquired. The substantial introduction
by Greg Smith surveys some of the purposes and practices of
watercolour from 1750 to the present day and highlights key issues,
many yet to be examined, relating to the study of watercolour. His
survey is arranged around a number of topics including the notion
of watercolour as a British art, collecting and display, book
illustration, architectural drawing, map-making and topography,
antiquarian studies, decorative arts, printmaking, portrait
miniatures and drawings, amateur practices and the changing status
of the sketch.
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