"Exalted Ideas of the Arts": John Francis Rigaud's Vision of the Role of the Artist in Eighteenth-Century England as seen in his Portraits of Fellow Artists and in his Self-Portraits

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dc.contributor.advisorPressly, William Len_US
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Lyricaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-11T05:34:38Z
dc.date.available2008-10-11T05:34:38Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-21en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis analyzes John Francis Rigaud's (1742-1810) vision of the role of the artist in eighteenth-century England by examining his portraits of fellow artists and by examining his self-portraits with his family, particularly in light of "Facts and Recollections of the XVIIIth Century in a Memoir of John Francis Rigaud Esq., R.A.," his memoir as compiled by his son, Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud. Rigaud's Memoir is one of the few surviving documents that illustrates the working life and aspirations of an artist in late-eighteenth-century England. Throughout the Memoir and in his paintings of himself and other artists, Rigaud supported the academic construction, as voiced by Sir Joshua Reynolds and as promoted by the Royal Academy of Arts, of the artist as a learned, hard-working, academic genius, rather than as notions of the artist as an original, creative genius popularized by the Romantic Movement.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8462
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSelf-Portraitsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPortraits of Artistsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFamily Portraitureen_US
dc.title"Exalted Ideas of the Arts": John Francis Rigaud's Vision of the Role of the Artist in Eighteenth-Century England as seen in his Portraits of Fellow Artists and in his Self-Portraitsen_US
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