A Poetical Epistle to Sir George Beaumont, Bart. On the encouragement of the British School of Painting.

SOTHEBY, William.

Edité par Printed for John Wright. 1801, 1801

37, [3]pp, half title, final ad. leaf. 8vo. Sl. foxing. Disbound. Worldcat locates copies at five libraries in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Maynooth, NLS, NLW) and seven elsewhere (Harvard, Huntington, Indiana, Lepizig, Otago, Stanford and Yale). Jackson p.256. Sotheby's poem was written in support of Beaumont's proposal for an exhibition of English Masters, and a British School of Painting. In 1806 Beaumont became founding director of the British Institution, but criticism of his role there caused him to withdraw somewhat from the London art world. He now spent more time at his Leicestershire seat, Coleorton Hall, where Wordsworth designed the winter garden and a memorial was erected to Reynolds, later the subject of Constable's painting The Cenotaph. Late in his life, Beaumont became devoted to the idea of a national collection of paintings; presentation of his own pictures to the government as the foundation of the National Gallery was a final act of benefaction. N° de réf. du vendeur 91620

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Titre : A Poetical Epistle to Sir George Beaumont, ...
Éditeur : Printed for John Wright. 1801
Date d'édition : 1801