Allan Ramsay: Painter, Essayist and Man of the Enlightenment

by Alastair Smart

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 honored 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300056907
• ISBN13: 9780300056907
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.0" x 11.4"