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The Society Portrait: Painting, Prestige and the Pursuit of Elegance Book

Features portraits dating from the early 19th century to the Second World War. This book offers anecdotes and insights into the personalities of both the artists and their patrons providing a panorama of the settings in which the portraits were created from French chateaux and English country houses to American mansions and Russian palaces.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    At the turn of the nineteenth century, society portraiture was on the brink of an extraordinary renaissance. Never in the history of painting has portraiture revealed such a glittering array of talents and rich variety of styles as it did during...

  • Pickabook

    Gabriel Badea-Paun, Richard Ormond (Foreword)

  • 0500238421
  • 9780500238424
  • Gabriel Badea-Päun, Richard Ormond
  • 12 November 2007
  • Thames & Hudson
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 223
  • illustrated edition
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