Regency Collectors
buying and displaying old masters in early nineteenth-century england
$74.88
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2026
Summary
Regency Collectors: Old Masters and the English Elite
The Regency was a period of crucial importance in the history of collecting Old Master paintings in England.
As the owners of aristocratic collections in France and Italy were forced by the political upheavals following the French Revolution to part with their inherited possessions, Old Masters arrived on the London art market in unprecedented quantity and quality. This book presents seven case studies of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915401175 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915401178 |
| Author: | Peter Humfrey |
| Publisher: | Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.39kg |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 240mm |
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About The Author
Peter Humfrey
Peter Humfrey is Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of St Andrews, where he taught from 1977 to 2012. His many books and articles on Venetian Renaissance art include The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice (Yale UP, 1993) and the exhibition catalogue, Vittore Carpaccio (2002). More relevantly to the present book, he edited the volume The Reception of Titian in Britain from Reynolds to Ruskin (Brepols, 2013), and he is the author of The Stafford Gallery: The Greatest Art Collection of Regency London (Unicorn, 2019).
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