Rembrandt Britain's Discovery of the Master

by Seifert, Christian Tico; Black, Peter; Dickey, Stephanie S.; Elliott, Patrick; Esposito, Donato; Ripps, M.J.; Yarker, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781911054191
• ISBN10: 1911054198
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-09-15
• Publisher: National Galleries Of Scotland

Summary

• The first time that a book has been published on this topic
• Featuring essays from leading international scholars in the field
• Including over 125 full-color images of work by Rembrandt and artists he inspired

This book tells the fascinating story of Rembrandt's fame and influence in Britain. Through essays by leading scholars in the field, it explores the collecting of his artworks in the country and his impact on British artists from the seventeenth century to today. Including lavish images of paintings, drawings and prints and featuring British artists such as William Hogarth, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Ken Currie alongside the master.

Author Biography

Christian Tico Seifert is Senior Curator of Northern European Art at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. He has curated a number of exhibitions and contributed to publications including Adam Elsheimer: 1578–1610 (2006), Dürer's Fame (2011), Masterpieces from Mount Stuart: The Bute Collection (2012) and Rubens & Company: Flemish Drawings from the Scottish National Gallery (2016).

Peter Black is curator at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. He has published widely on prints and drawings, and in 2012 he organised the exhibition Rembrandt and the Passion at the Hunterian.

Stephanie Dickey holds the Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Among her numerous books and articles on Dutch and Flemish art of the seventeenth century are Rembrandt: Portraits in Print (2004), the edited collection Rembrandt and his Circle: Insights and Discoveries (2017), and contributions to exhibition catalogues including Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1995) and Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2008). Current projects include a study of Rembrandt's etchings and the history of print collecting.

Patrick Elliott is Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. He has written extensively on modern and contemporary art. Recent publications include Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists (2010), Tony Cragg (2011), The Two Roberts: Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde (2014), The Amazing World of M.C. Escher (2015), Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place (2016) and True to Life: British Realist Painting in the 1920s & 1930s (2017).

Donato Esposito is an academic and curator who specialises in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, collecting and taste. From 1999 to 2004 he worked as Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum and was a 2012–13 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He is the author of Frederick Walker and the Idyllists (Lund Humphries, 2017).

M.J. Ripps read history at Virginia and Cambridge and later art history in Amsterdam. He submitted his doctoral thesis, ‘Bond Street picture dealers and the international trade in Dutch old masters, 1882-1914,' at Oxford, supervised by Christopher Brown. Previously, he has held grants from the Frick Collection, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Burlington Magazine (Haskell Prize), and spent a year in the paintings department, J. Paul Getty Museum. In addition to being an independent art historian – and continuing to submit papers to scholarly publications – Ripps works in the old master trade.

Jonathan Yarker completed his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a director of Lowell Libson, Ltd. in London.

Table of Contents

• ‘Rembrandt's Fame in Britain', Christian Tico Selfert
• ‘The finest possible state': Cataloguing and collecting Rembrandt's prints, c.1700–1840', Stephanie Dickey
• ‘Regarding Rembrandt: Reynolds and Rembrandt', Donato Esposito
• ‘Rembrandt and Britain: A ‘picture flight' in three stages, 1850–1930', M.J. Ripps
• ‘Rembrandt: Paragon of the etching revival', Peter Black
• ‘What copies tell us about the British interest in Rembrandt during the eighteenth century', Jonathan Yarker
• ‘Rembrandt and the modern era', Patrick Elliott