Heidi A. Strobel

The Art of Mary Linwood (eBook, ePUB)

Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work.

When British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the equivalent of £5,199,822 in today's currency. As someone who made, but did not sell, embroidered replicas of famous artworks after artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, and Morland, how did she accumulate so much money? A pioneering woman in the male-dominated art world of late Georgian Britain, Linwood established her own London gallery in 1798 that featured copies of well-known paintings by these popular artists.

Featuring props and specially designed rooms for her replicas, she ensured that her visitors had an entertaining, educational, and kinetic tour, similar to what Madame Tussaud would do one generation later. The gallery's focus on picturesque painters provided her London visitors with an idyllic imaginary journey through the countryside. Its emphasis on quintessentially British artists provided a unifying focus for a country that had recently emerged from the threat of Napoleonic invasion.

This book brings to the fore Linwood's gallery guides and previously unpublished letters to her contemporaries, such as Birmingham inventor Matthew Boulton and Queen Charlotte. It also includes the first and only catalogue of Linwood's extant and destroyed works. By examining Linwood's replicas and their accompanying objects through the lens of material culture, the book provides a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on women and cultural agency in the early 19th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350428102
• Artikelnr.: 69182812

Autorenporträt

Heidi A. Strobel is Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of North Texas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Plates List of Figures Introduction 1. Embroidery,
Education, and Commerce: Linwood's Early Years 2. The Pantheon and Hanover
Square Exhibitions 3. Portraiture, Publications, and Promotion 4. The
Leicester Square Gallery: Performing British Patriotism 5. Of Students and
Studying: The Academic Tradition and the Scripture Room 6. Linwood's
Legacies Appendix: Catalogue of Linwood's Textiles Notes Bibliography