Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78327-663-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 306 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tittler, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttechniken & Prinzipien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Introduction
Introduction
1. Painters before the Reformation

Part II. Kinds of People
2. The Stranger-Painters
3. The Painter-Stainers' Company of London
4. Provincial Painters

Part III. Particular Specialities
5. Arms Painters
6. Glass Painters

Part IV. Ways and Means
7. The Workshop Personnel
8. The Workshop Space
9. The Business of Painting

Part V. Conclusion
10. An Occupation in Transition

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tittler, Robert
ROBERT TITTLER is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal.