'Writing the lives of painters' : biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1810 / Karen Junod.

• Contexts. Biography vs. literature, art, and criticism -- Series of lives. Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of painting in England (1762-1780) ; William Beckford's Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters (1780) -- Individual lives. William Hogarth : the art of biography and the life of anecdotes ; Thomas Gainsborough : life in a sketch, sketch of a life ; George Morland : natural art, fictional life, and factual biography ; John Opie : domesticity, publicity, and gender.

Ämnesord

Biography as a literary form.  (LCSH)

Art and literature  -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Art and literature  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Konst och litteratur  -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet (sao)

Klassifikation

PR408.A68 (LCC)

s1zz (ämneskategori)

820.9492 (DDC)