The Conversation Piece: Scenes of fashionable life - Softcover

Desmond Shawe-Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905686072 ISBN 13: 9781905686070

Publisher: Royal Collection Trust, 2009

Synopsis

Deriving from the secular compositions of Dutch art, the conversation piece - typically an informal scene of a family in conversation or a group engaged in an activity - became highly fashionable in 18th-century England. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Queens Gallery, this volume traces the development of the genre and discusses examples from the Royal Collection, including works by Stubbs, Gainsborough, Hogarth and the master of the genre, Jan Zoffany.

About this title

About the Author:

Desmond Shawe-Taylor is Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures and was formerly Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery. His publications include "The Georgians: Eighteenth-Century Portraiture and Society" (1990) and most recently "Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting" (2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1905686072
• ISBN 13: 9781905686070
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192