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This original account of Henry VIII’s unrivaled tapestry collection sheds new light on Tudor political and artistic culture and offers a fascinating new perspective on the monarch’s life. Sumptuously illustrated with newly-commissioned photographs, this book is essential for scholars of Renaissance history and the visual culture of the Reformation.

From fine art paintings to zoological illustrations to popular prints, animal images created in Britain between 1750 and 1850 reveal the cultural importance of animals and deeply ambivalent attitudes toward them.

This book uncovers the fascinating history of British-American trade in architectural salvages—chimney pieces, doorways, paneling, etc.—spurred by popular “period rooms” in museums and avid collectors like William Randolph Hearst.

This engaging and beautifully illustrated book looks at the remarkable life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–17...

The first full catalogue of the paintings and drawings of George Stubbs, considered one of the greatest artists of the 18th century and renowned particularly for his animal paintings.

A freshly updated edition of the classic reference that contains biographies of 2,000 British architects of the period 1600 to 1840 and information on all their important buildings and writings.

This original exploration of 18th-century British funeral monuments discusses the sculptors, the people who commissioned them, and the people they commemorated.

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This engaging book provides a new explanation of British architect Nicholas Hawksmoor’s theory of architecture and examines his dramatic built and planned work.

An important look at the changes of style in architecture that took place after the dissolution of monasteries in England in the 1530s.

Focusing on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, Frederic Leighton, and other members of the Aesthetic Movement, this volume explores the debates surrounding the notion of “art for art's sake” during the 1860s and 1870s.

The first critical study of Whistler and his impressionist followers, this book analyzes Whistler's modernist project begun in the 1880s depicting London scenes, subjects, and personalities.

The book sets Bonington’s achievement in the context of the intellectual, social, and artistic ferment of high romanticism in Paris and London, and it shows the profound effect of his style on his friend and contemporary, Eugène Delacroix, and many others. Noon’s detailed and accurate study will inform all future discourse on Bonington and his remark...

This richly illustrated study of the actress in Georgian England focuses new attention on her various roles as coquette, whore, celebrity, muse, and creative agent and on her contributions toward professionalizing the theater and fine arts.

This groundbreaking book delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people during the Second World War. Brian Foss provides a rich account of mid-century art, artists, and the evolving notion of Britishness.

This intriguing exploration of British and Irish country houses from medieval times to the 18th century casts new light on the designs of these homes and the lives of those who lived in them.

Sickert, an artist of prodigious creativity, has inspired and influenced British painters for more than a century. This catalogue discusses his artistic development and presents more than 2,800 drawings and paintings, many published for the first time.

This groundbreaking volume surveys all types of Irish furniture and interior wood carvings, from earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century. With five hundred fascinating photographs, the book encompasses everything from medieval choir stalls to the magnificent furnishings of the great houses.

This volume of John Singer Sargent’s catalogue raisonné presents more than 200 oil and watercolor paintings completed by the young artist as he was engaged in forging his own style. These innovative paintings, none of which are portraits, demonstrate a surprising range of subject matter and challenge traditional views of Singer’s artistic personality.

This sumptuous book presents more than two hundred portraits and portrait sketches in oil and watercolor that Sargent painted between 1900 and his death in 1925. Detailed documentation on each painting includes information on the work’s provenance and exhibition history, a short biography of the sitter, and a discussion of its significance in the artist’s career.

This second volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of the work of John Singer Sargent presents over one hundred and fifty portraits painted between 1889 and 1900. With nearly every work reproduced in color, the book is both gorgeous and authoritative. It provides the provenance of each work, a short biography of the sitter, a description of the circumstances of the painting, and a critic...

This magnificent book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of the works in oil, watercolor, and pastel of the beloved painter John Singer Sargent. This volume catalogues portraits by Sargent from 1874, when he began his training in Paris, and covers pictures painted while he was establishing his reputation in Paris, during his early years in England, and on his first profe...

This major new study of one of the most internationally celebrated artists of the 18th century considers the artist’s pictorial strategies, significant contributions to portraiture, and role as a woman in shaping European visual culture.

One of the greatest artists of sixteenth-century Europe, Hans Holbein the younger spent much of his career in England and painted everyone of note in Henry VIII’s realm. In this generously illustrated book, Susan Foister presents an original account of how the masterful Renaissance artist held up a mirror to the cultural life of Tudor England. 

This gorgeous book presents and discusses the oils, works on paper, and other artistic creations of William Holman Hunt, one of the three major artistic talents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.

This monumental reference work will transform the study of British and Irish painting. It lists 16th- through 19th-century British and Irish art in public collections, encompassing 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings from 1,700 collections. Among the paintings listed are tens of thousands of previously unpublished works and works that are now lost.

In this original book, Peter Draper explores how and why the English version of Gothic architecture that developed from about 1150 – 1250 was quite distinct from Gothic expression elsewhere. With plentiful illustrations, the book invites readers to think about and see some of England’s best-loved buildings in new ways.

Focusing on the rich visual culture of the seventeenth century—from portraits and fashion plates to literary sources—this novel and beautiful book is an indispensable account of what people wore in Stuart England and how it related to the time’s cultural climate.

Why were post World War I British artists preoccupied with the theme of maternity? How did this become the great new subject, especially for sculptors? Anne Middleton Wagner finds the answers to these questions and more in her probing study of the first generation of British modernists, including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein.

How did these two artists engage with international modernism when much English art was narrowly insular and “patriotic?” In what ways did their art embody a creative response to Picasso and surrealism? The author investigates these and many other questions to illuminate the personal and professional relationship between two compelling twentieth-century artists.

In this original exploration of English family portraiture in the 18th century, Kate Retford traces both innovation and tradition in the paintings of this period. She considers works ranging from small-scale conversation pieces to grandiose, full-length images and mines these portraits for important insights into the history of the family.

In this volume twenty international scholars explore the work and influences of two of the twentieth century’s greatest architectural historians: American Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Englishman Sir John Summerson. The book illuminates the importance of these two figures as well as the place of architecture within the social and cultural environment.

The Bank of England symbolizes the economic strength, influence, and potency of Britain. Founded in 1694, its world-famous buildings were built and rebuilt four times by different architects, most notably Sir John Soane. The Bank’s three-and-aquarter-acre complex has included elegant public banking halls and private offices, courtyards and gardens, warehouses and vaults, residential apartmen...

All but forgotten today, eight historic gardens that once flourished along the length of the Thames in early Tudor London are here historically recreated and analyzed in this richly illustrated book. One of the gardens belonged to Sir Thomas More, and the others to politically powerful friends and acquaintances of his. The stories of these long-lost gardens, brought together here for the first tim...

In an increasingly mechanized age, Victorian artists questioned the meaning and value of labor. Is work a moral obligation or a religious duty? Should art celebrate rural labor or reveal the degradation of the industrial workplace? In this highly original book featuring extensive new research, Tim Barringer considers artists’ answers to these questions and what they reveal about Victorian cu...

Giles Worsley revisits the work of Inigo Jones in this groundbreaking book and transforms our understanding of one of England’s greatest architects. The author examines Jones’s architecture from humble stable to royal palace, placing the architect for the first time in the context of a European-wide, early 17th-century classicist movement.

This gorgeously illustrated volume is the first to demonstrate the magnificent variety of stables in the British Isles. The book discusses horse stables from the twelfth century to WWI and shows how this specialized building—whether designed for royalty, nobility, brewing companies, or the military—came to play a central role in British architectural history.

Focusing for the first time on Tudor and early Stuart country houses in their settings, Paula Henderson offers new perspectives on some of England’s most magical buildings. She examines gardens and natural landscapes as well as gatehouses, walls, garden structures, and banqueting houses to uncover how and why these estates were organized as they were.

This book takes a wide-ranging look at the origins of the architectural conservation movement in the United Kingdom. Contributors consider how the modern concept of heritage emerged in the nineteenth century, the role of politics in creating a historic buildings culture, the influence of William Morris and Philip Webb, and much more.

Drawing on archival research and many years of personal discussions with Victor Pasmore, Kenneth and Marty Martin, Adrian Heath, and other constructed abstract artists, Alastair Grieve here investigates why this important English avant garde has received so little attention. Grieve offers much new information on the group, their theories, and their roots.

This classic of English architectural history has become an indispensable guide to the genesis and development of Georgian London. The current edition has been corrected in the light of new research, expanded to include a few significant buildings originally overlooked, and enhanced with new illustrations.

This gorgeous book surveys the decorative schemes of the country and town houses built in Britain during the eighteenth century and considers the effects created by design, furniture, textiles, silver, and artworks. 

During the nineteenth century, what had been British hostility toward French art shifted toward acceptance and even enthusiasm, a change that transformed British art. This book charts the impact of French culture on British art and, to a lesser extent, the influence of British art in France during the nineteenth century. Thoroughly original, it is the first full overview of artistic and cultural r...

Richard Wendorf’s new book on British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries combines the analysis of specific artworks with an exploration of the cultural conditions in which they were created. Wendorf offers illuminating interpretations of such iconic images as Raeburn’s Skating Minister and Stubbs’s Haymakers and Reapers.

This engrossing book is an account of the life and work of William Coldstream, prominent in British twentieth-century art both as a figurative painter and as a member of the art establishment. 

This first full critical biography of the English painter William Nicholson reassesses his achievement, his relationship to his fellow twentieth-century artists, and his complex personal life, in particular his involvement with his famous son Ben.

Railroad and bus stations, airport terminals, highway service areas, filling stations and garages—such transport buildings are a major part of modern life. This book is the first to take a close look at the architecture of British transport buildings of the 20th century and to explore their enormous political and cultural significance.

This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from eighteenth-century London. It sheds new light on both the era’s urban architecture and the lives of the artisans and laborers who inhabited these modest homes.

This intriguing book is the first to draw a complete picture of the artistic and political connections between the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens and the Stuart court in seventeenth-century England.

Gaining notoriety as “England’s only Futurist” in the turbulent days preceding World War I, C. R. W. Nevinson was one of the most talked about artists of his generation, yet he abandoned his progressive art in post-war years. This book focuses long overdue attention on Nevinson’s dynamic and powerful early works, including the memorable and controversial images he produced ...

This lovely book is the first to explore the art-theoretical concerns of the late-Victorian sculptors, focusing on their attitudes toward representation of the human body. 

This generously illustrated book is the first in-depth biography of G. F. Watts, the most important portrait painter in nineteenth-century Britain and the father of British Symbolism.

This appealingly illustrated book is the first to focus attention on the architecture of England’s retail buildings. Encompassing retail settings from the Middle Ages to the present, the book traces how shop buildings developed in response to fashion, social and economic conditions, technological advances, and innovations in retail methods.

This fascinating book examines how the British state recruited artists to produce official art as part of propaganda during World War I and how their compelling work affected twentieth-century art and British modernism.

Hampton Court, a center of court life and politics in Britain for two and a half centuries, is one of the most famous and historically evocative buildings in England. This lavishly illustrated book brings to life the entire history of the palace, its numerous architectural innovations, magnificent formal gardens, royal residents, and important events that took place within its walls.

This authoritative book is the first comprehensive study of medieval domestic buildings in London before the Great Fire of 1666. Its highly informative text is accompanied by more than 300 illustrations and a selective gazetteer of 201 sites in the City of London and its environs.

This uniquely wide-ranging book explores British medieval houses, from humble to grand, in greater detail than ever before. Anthony Quiney’s survey encompasses houses from the early fifth century to the early seventeenth, featuring over 300 illustrations that include medieval depictions, historic prints and photographs, and many explanatory drawings.

Robert Adam, one of the greatest British architects of the later eighteenth century, wielded enormous influence as a decorator and furniture designer. In this elegantly illustrated book, Eileen Harris focuses on nineteen of Adam’s most accomplished interior projects, including some of his most famous British country houses and London town houses. Harris shows how the synthesis of architectur...

Sir Anthony Van Dyck, one of the greatest portrait painters of the seventeenth century, created full-length portraits of aristocrats in many European cities and influenced the history of Western portraiture into the twentieth century. This handsomely illustrated catalogue raisonné contains all the paintings of Van Dyck, along with the provenance, significant facts, and literature on each.&nbs...

In this fascinating examination of the impact of the actress on British art and culture of the Georgian era, female performers are shown to have played a vital and—until now—under-appreciated role in the artist’s studio. As models, muses, and patrons, actresses inspired images through which issues of theatricality, sexuality, and social mobility could be explored.

Sargent’s entrancing Venetian oils and watercolors are displayed and discussed in this gorgeous book.

An original look at paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in sugar and slaves was most active and profitable.

This engaging book—the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England—considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category and as a vehicle for political agitation, criticism, and debate.

This book analyzes the innovative generation of painters led by David Wilkie that took that London's art world by storm at the height of the Napoleonic Wars with their novel approach to depicting everyday life.

Careful readings of Burne-Jones’ paintings and Morris’s designs reveal illuminating connections between the artistic projects of these two longstanding friends.