Isbn: 9780300056907 - Allan Ramsay – Painter, Essayist & Man of the Enlightenment (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. dj. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf-wear, else very sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. Dusty dark blue boards very good. Cracked at front but holding well. Clean and tight interior. ; Studies In British Art; 11.4 X 9.0 X 1.3 inches; 320 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Studies In British Art.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Minor Shelfwear. 1st Edition. 316pp. 213 Colour and b&w illustrations. Then top edge of the jacket is worn.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1700grams, ISBN:0300056907.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:0300056907.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Allan Ramsay, Court painter to King George III, was one of the major portrait painters of the eighteenth-century British school. Born in Edinburgh, he was also an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment; his Dialogue on Taste merits an honoured place among eighteenth-century belles lettres. This book, by the world's foremost authority on Ramsay, gives an entirely fresh account of Ramsay's life and sheds new light on his artistic and intellectual development. A classical scholar and master of several modern languages, Ramsay was unquestionably the most erudite artist of the age. His friends included such celebrated men of letters as David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell; he also came to know the French philosophes Voltaire, Diderot, d'Holbach and Rousseau (whose portrait he painted). Alastair Smart describes Ramsay's early years, his artistic training in Scotland, England and Italy, his rise to prominence as the leading portrait painter in England, his two marriages, his travels abroad, and his appointment as painter to the King. He discusses Ramsay's ideas, especially as revealed in the Dialogue on Taste. He analyzes the various phases in Ramsay's development as a painter and explores his relationship to such established painters as Hogarth and Highmore and to the younger painters Reynolds and Gainsborough. Smart's extensive discussions of Ramsay's major works are accompanied by numerous reproductions of his paintings, many appearing for the first time. Smart's biography of a remarkable Enlightenment figure - the fruits of sustained research over many years - fills a considerable gap in our knowledge of British eighteenth-century art. Slight scratching/scuffing on cover. Book has minor shelf wear.…