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The Prime Minister of Taste: A Portrait of Horace Walpole by Morris R. Brownell
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- Book Title
- The Prime Minister of Taste: a Portrait of Horace Walpole
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 256mm
- Genre
- Finance, Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- History
- Item Width
- 192mm
- Item Weight
- 1410g
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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In this intriguing book, Morris Brownell offers a fresh account of the career and influence of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), the great English man of letters and art historian. Rejecting both the traditional view of Walpole as a trifling collector of curiosities and the more recent assessment of him as a sober social historian and connoisseur, Brownell argues that Walpole grew to become a serious patron, collector, and historian of the arts - the Prime Minister of Taste . Drawing on vast Walpole archival materials and on his astonishing forty volumes of letters, Brownell describes the formation of young Walpole's taste and interest in the visual arts. Brownell argues that England's leading portrait engraver, George Vertue, converted Walpole from Grand Tour taste in painting to a life-long study of English portraits. The book discusses the significance of Walpole's collection of English historical portraits and French portraits of the ancien regime, and it analyses Walpole's fascination with portraiture, comparing the painted portraits Walpole collected and wrote about to the literary portraits he penned in his letters. Walpole's passion for the art of portraiture was not the trifling pastime he pretended, Brownell says, in fact it was the source of his greatest literary achievement - a gallery of literary portraits of the English aristocracy as fine as the painted portraits of Reynolds and Gainsborough.
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Yale University Press
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Book Title
The Prime Minister of Taste: a Portrait of Horace Walpole
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Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2001
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Textbook
Genre
Finance, Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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256mm
Item Width
192mm
Item Weight
1410g
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