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1	Eltonography more books like this by Terry O'Neill (Photographer) add to wishlist Spanning four decades chronicling the public and private journeys of a man voted as one of the 50 greatest artists of all time. With over 30 albums and an endless production line of singles that rank amongst the 20th century's greatest classics, he has accumulated 5 Grammys, 11 Ivor Novellas and an Oscar. Terry O'Neill's camera has chronicled the ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $24.08!
2	The English poets more books like this by David Cecil add to wishlist Part of the "Writers' Britain" series, first published in the 1940s, this work argues that poetry, of all the arts, is the chosen artistic expression of the nation. It surveys the English poets and their legacy, from Chaucer to the War Poets. see all copies from $2.81! new only from $8.81! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Crown of a 1000 Years 232 more books like this by Mildred Hudson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.63! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility more books like this by Angela Rosenthal add to wishlist One of the most successful and internationally celebrated artists of the eighteenth century, Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) established her reputation with sensitive portraits as well as ambitious history paintings. This major new study explores the artist's work and career by considering how Kauffman reconciled the public and presumed masculine ... see all copies from $45.00! new only from $48.13! \| SVS
5	Pictures in the Garrick Club more books like this by Geoffrey Ashton, Andrew Wilton, Kalman A Burnim add to wishlist The Garrick Club's collection of British theatrical works of art, consisting of over one thousand paintings, drawings and pieces of sculpture, is vital to the study of British theatre history. The particular strength and glory of the collection is the mid-to-late Georgian period, from 1760-1830, the "golden age" of theatrical portraiture. see all copies from $59.95! new only from $64.95! \| first editions
6	Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection more books like this by Margaret D Stetz add to wishlist This is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware. This study highlights the connections between the images of writers' and artists ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $51.99!
7	Skating Minister: The Story Behind the Painting more books like this by Lynne Gladstone-Millar, Duncan Thomson add to wishlist The portrait of Reverend Robert Walker by Sir Henry Raeburn is world famous. On permanent show in the National Gallery of Scotland, the black-clad minister, skating enigmatically over Edinburgh's Duddingston Loch on a wintry afternoon, is a now familiar icon of Scottish culture. The painting gained new fame recently as an inspiration to the ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.67! \| SVS
8	Meet the ladies : personalities in Huntington portraits more books like this by Robert R Wark, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, Plantin Press add to wishlist see all copies from $2.86! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Some Old Portraits more books like this by Booth Tarkington add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
10	The Image of the Poet: British Poets and Their Portraits more books like this by David Piper add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Portrait of the Artist: Artists' Portraits Published by 'Art News & Review' 1949-1960 more books like this by David Fraser Jenkins add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $105.86! \| first editions
12	The Face in the Corner: Animal Portraits from the Collections of the more books like this by Robin Gibson, National Portrait Gallery (Illustrator) add to wishlist This volume, illustrated throughout with images from the National Portrait Gallery, charts the frequent presence in even the grandest portraits of the sitter's silent companion - cats, dogs and other pets as recorded with their masters and mistresses in over 450 years of paintings, sketches, drawings and photographs. From the Elizabethan Sir Henry ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $9.07! \| first editions
13	Pre-Raphaelite Portraits more books like this by Andrea Rase, Andrea Rose add to wishlist see all copies from $16.46! first editions
14	George Romney (1734-1802) : zur Bildform der Bürgerlichen Mitte in der Englischen Neoklassik more books like this by Gerhard Charles Rump add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50!
15	John Michael Wright, the King's painter more books like this by Sara Stevenson, Duncan Thomson, John Dick, John Michael Wright, Scottish National Portrait Gallery add to wishlist see all copies from $29.99! first editions
16	English Face more books like this by David Piper add to wishlist The author considers how the face has been depicted by portrait painters, miniaturists, sculptors, caricaturists and photographers over the past 500 years and shows how every age has its own ideal standard of beauty influenced by changing fashions in dress, manners and artistic taste. This book explores the relationship between artist and sitter ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $24.95! \| first editions
17	Dictionary of British Portraiture: Volume 1. the Middle Ages to the Early Georgians: Historical Figures Born Before 1700. Comp. by Dr. Adriana Davies. more books like this by Richard Ormond, Malcolm Rogers, Adriana Davies (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00!
18	Angelika Kauffmann : Bildnismalerei im 18. Jahrhundert more books like this by Angela Rosenthal add to wishlist see all copies from $137.24! new only from $137.24!
19	Lucy Jones: Looking at Self more books like this add to wishlist Expressionist painting is truly self-expression. The vivid, unnatural colours and distorted forms spring from the artist's mind, transforming the motif into a magic window into the painter's private self. Lucy Jones has chosen to express above all her feelings and emotions about her own body in its various forms and moods. The result is a series ... see all copies from $23.88! new only from $24.62!
20	Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings more books like this by Lucian Freud (Illustrator), Starr Figura (Text by) add to wishlist One of the foremost figurative artists working today, Lucian Freud has redefined portraiture and the nude through his unblinking scrutiny of the human form. Although he is best known as a painter, etching is integral to his practice. This volume accompanies a major Museum of Modern Art exhibition that will present the full scope of Freud's ... see all copies from $23.95! new only from $24.83! \| first editions \| SVS
21	British portrait painters more books like this by Robin Gibson, Keith Roberts add to wishlist see all copies from $3.19! new only from $25.88! \| first editions
22	Heads across the sea : an album of eighteenth-century English literary portraits in America more books like this by Frances Sharf Fink add to wishlist see all copies from $5.95! first editions \| SVS
23	National Portrait Gallery in colour more books like this by National Portrait Gallery add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
24	The Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian pictures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen. more books like this by Sir Oliver Millar add to wishlist see all copies from $14.95! first editions
25	London Blues more books like this by Nobby Clark (Photographer) add to wishlist A stunning collection of black-and-white images of London and its people. Nobby Clark is well-known for his theater photographs. This, however, is a more personal project, the result of carrying a small camera around the streets of London for over forty years, "Taking photos of my town-its people, buildings, the river . . . it changes every day. ... see all copies from $28.88! new only from $33.22! \| SVS

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