Jonathan Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment

by Carol Gibson-Wood

Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745), one of his generation's foremost portrait painters, was also one of the most influential art theorists in eighteenth-century Britain. In this critical biography, Carol Gibson-Wood provides for the first time a detailed account of Richardson's life, including new information from original archival sources and unpublished correspondence, along with an analysis of Richardson's most significant theoretical texts.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300081278
• ISBN13: 9780300081275
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.9" x 10.4"