The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare's 'Fine Frenzy' in Late Eighteenth-Century British Art

by William L. Pressly

This book examines the first generation of artists in Britain to define themselves as history painters, attempting what then was considered to be art's most exalted category. These ambitious artists, including John Hamilton Mortimer, Henry Fuseli, Alexander and John Runciman, James Barry, James Jefferys, George Romney, John Flaxman, and William Blake, most of whom were born in the 1740s and 60s, were presented with the challenge of how best to compete...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611493226
• ISBN13: 9781611493221
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 235 Pages