Sociability and portraiture from William Hogarth to Thomas Lawrence
The period between 1730-1830 saw the rise of an English school of art, much later than the other schools on the European continent. English portrait painters played a crucial part in this evolution by deploying the art of portraiture in infinite variations, in search of a veracity and an intimacy wh...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_9022 https://doi.org/10.4000/122dr urn:doi:10.4000/122dr en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/9022 2024-07-20T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/122dr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sociability and portraiture from William Hogarth to Thomas Lawrence Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces Ogée, Frédéric peinture portrait Grande-Bretagne sociabilité siècle des Lumières individu painting portraiture individuality Enlightenment sociability Great Britain The period between 1730-1830 saw the rise of an English school of art, much later than the other schools on the European continent. English portrait painters played a crucial part in this evolution by deploying the art of portraiture in infinite variations, in search of a veracity and an intimacy whose contours and peculiarities they tirelessly strove to capture and render. Indeed, they radically transformed their chosen pictorial genre by transcribing onto canvas the new conceptions and perceptions of the individual which had emerged in the Age of Enlightenment. Sensitive to the new universalist values associated with the notions of identity, individuality and sociability, the British portraitists set out to represent the variety and diversity of human beings, moving away from ancient types and models to focus on the particular, singular, circumstantial personalities of the models. In this essay I try to present the narrative of this remarkable blossoming, focussing on the works of a series of exceptional artists—William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence—whose works provide us with a remarkable visual chronicle of the evolutions of men, women and children in this rich moment in European history. La période entre 1730 et 1830 vit l’émergence d’une école anglaise de peinture, bien plus tard que les autres écoles du continent européen. Les portraitistes anglais jouèrent un rôle crucial dans cette évolution en déployant l'art du portrait dans de nouvelles directions, à la recherche d'une véracité et d'une intimité dont ils s'efforcèrent inlassablement de capturer et de restituer les contours et les particularités. En effet, ils transformèrent radicalement le genre pictural qu’ils avaient choisi en transcrivant sur la toile les nouvelles conceptions et perceptions de l’individu qui émergèrent au siècle des Lumières. Sensibles aux nouvelles valeurs universalistes associées aux notions d'individualité, d’identité et de sociabilité, les portraitistes britanniques s’attachèrent à représenter la variété et la diversité des êtres humains, s'éloignant des types et modèles anciens pour se concentrer sur les personnalités particulières, singulières et circonstancielles de leurs modèles. Dans le présent essai, je présente le récit de cette remarquable éclosion en me concentrant sur les œuvres d'une série d'artistes exceptionnels - William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence - dont les œuvres nous offrent une remarquable chronique visuelle des différentes façons dont hommes, femmes et enfants vécurent et traversèrent ce riche moment riche de l'histoire européenne. |
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The period between 1730-1830 saw the rise of an English school of art, much later than the other schools on the European continent. English portrait painters played a crucial part in this evolution by deploying the art of portraiture in infinite variations, in search of a veracity and an intimacy whose contours and peculiarities they tirelessly strove to capture and render. Indeed, they radically transformed their chosen pictorial genre by transcribing onto canvas the new conceptions and perceptions of the individual which had emerged in the Age of Enlightenment. Sensitive to the new universalist values associated with the notions of identity, individuality and sociability, the British portraitists set out to represent the variety and diversity of human beings, moving away from ancient types and models to focus on the particular, singular, circumstantial personalities of the models. In this essay I try to present the narrative of this remarkable blossoming, focussing on the works of a series of exceptional artists—William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence—whose works provide us with a remarkable visual chronicle of the evolutions of men, women and children in this rich moment in European history. |
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Sociability and portraiture from William Hogarth to Thomas Lawrence |
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Sociability and portraiture from William Hogarth to Thomas Lawrence |
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Sociability and portraiture from William Hogarth to Thomas Lawrence |
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