Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London
Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically, for Immediate Reference, Each Preceded by an Historical and Critical Introduction

This 1844 work by Anna Jameson provides a guide to London collections and an insight into mid-nineteenth-century taste in art.

Anna Jameson (Author)

9781108073844, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 July 2014

458 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 kg

A professional author of art and literary criticism as well as travel writing, Anna Jameson (1794–1860) journeyed widely in Europe and North America, and moved in the literary circles which included the Brownings and Harriet Martineau. Many of her other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. In 1844, she published this book on the great private art collections of London. She begins with an essay on the formation of the collections, from the seventeenth-century earl of Arundel onwards, and then describes in turn the Queen's Gallery, the Bridgewater, Sutherland, Grosvenor and Lansdowne galleries, and the collections of Sir Robert Peel and of the poet Samuel Rogers. For each collection there is an introductory essay, a catalogue raisonnée and a note of the most important items in the collection. This work is a fascinating and valuable guide to mid-nineteenth-century taste and fashion in art.

General introduction
The Queen's Gallery
The Bridgewater Gallery
The Sutherland Gallery
The Grosvenor Gallery
The collection of the Marquis of Lansdowne
The collection of Sir Robert Peel
The collection of Mr Rogers.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]