Drawing on interviews with all the key BritArt players and archival research, this title examines the individual characters, their relationships to one another, crucial events and seminal artworks, considering, the political, economic and artistic context of those years.
This volume contains 10 representative works of art in the Huntington collection that illustrate the richness and diversity of British painting during the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Artists at this time borrowed styles from ancient Greece and China up to the just closing rococo period.