Portrait of the Artist - Hardcover

Reynolds, Anna; Peter, Lucy; Clayton, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909741329 ISBN 13: 9781909741324

Publisher: Royal Collection Trust, 2016

Synopsis

The first publication to focus on self-portraits and other images of the artist from within the Royal Collection, Portrait of the Artist showcases self-portraits of world-renowned artists from Rembrandt to Hockney, and features images of artists by their friends, relatives and pupils, including the most reliable surviving likeness of Leonardo da Vinci by his student, Francesco Melzi.

This sumptuously illustrated book contains a fascinating array of paintings, works on paper, photographs and decorative arts by artists including Rubens, Gentileschi, Dürer, Reynolds and Freud.

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Review:

Accompanying Buckingham Palace's exhibition, this lavishly illustrated catalogue takes us on a delightful whirl through portraits and self-portraits of artists collected by Royals through the centuries. There is David Hockney's luminous self-portrait created on an iPad, David Dawson's photograph of Lucian Freud painting The Queen, a bankrupt Rembrandt's melancholy self-portrait, and cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson's 1810 satirical watercolour of the bohemian artist's life. On a darker note, Cristofano Allori painted his own handsome head in his Judith With The Head Of Holofernes (1613) - chopped off and gripped by its curly hair, in the hands of his tempestuous ex-lover. Highly recommended.

--Rebecca Wallersteiner, The Lady

This sumptuous book examines not only artist s self-portraits, but also paintings of artists by their friends and contemporaries. [...] This volume is packed with information and with many images this book is everything you need on a most interesting subject. --Bill Spence, Gazette and Herald

Catalogues! At their best, not only beautifully illustrated but providing provocative essays and analyses of individual works of art. Portrait of the Artist by Anna Reynolds, Lucy Peter and Martin Clayton published by Royal Collection Trust [...] is a superb example: surprising, beautiful and enjoyable, replete with the unexpected from Rembrandt to Prince Philip. --Marina Vaizey, The Tablet

About the Author:

Anna Reynolds is Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust. Her previous titles include In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion (2013) and A Royal Welcome (2015).

Lucy Peter is Assistant Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust, and was the co-author of the Buckingham Palace Summer Opening publication Royal Childhood (2014).

Martin Clayton is Head of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust. He has published extensively on drawings in the Royal Collection, most recently Castiglione: Lost Genius (2014) and Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist (2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1909741329
• ISBN 13: 9781909741324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256