Artists’s Houses in London 1764–1914, with photographs by Niall Doull-Connolly
During the 150 years prior to 1914, British artists of all kinds, like their European counterparts, enjoyed esteem and prosperity on a steadily mounting scale. "Artists' Houses in London" reveals how the more ambitious painters and sculptors based in England's capital came to build an extraordinary range of workplaces in response to their rising status. These dwellings, the Victorian studio-house in particular, captivated a society increasingly receptive to artistic creativity. Giles Walkely brings to account numerous colourful examples, reanimating the once familiar artists' quarters of the West End by virtue of a commentary which highlights former local luminaries such as Leighton, Whistler, Alma Tadema and Herkomer. Designs by the most progressive contemporary architects, among them Webb, Shaw, Godwin and Voysey, are compared with previously unknown works by less celebrated figures. Here are the bright confections of the "Queen Anne" Revival, the passionate extremes of the Aesthetic School, Arts and Crafts models for the dream-houses of the end-of-century Free Style, and the inspiration for "l'esprit nouveau", yet to arrive. Complemented by 180 illustrations and a comprehensive gazetteer, this is a useful history, rich in social detail. "Artists' Houses in London" makes an informative guide to the most talked-about domestic architecture, interior design and popular art of the day. (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Contents: Introduction - elements of the genre / The groves of academe, 1769 / From Georgian contiguity to Victorian semi-detachment / Bourgeois empire-building / Establishment Kensington - Melbury Road
Eesthetic Chelsea - Tite Street / High Victorian Hampstead - Fitzjohn's Avenue / Decadent St John's Wood - Grove End Road / Mass-produced studios - terraces and flats / Home county hideouts
Not a common artistt's studio - photographic establishments / Fiction and faction in studioland
Riverrun and environs - a rallying round / Notes and references for chapters 1-12 / Gazetteer - multiple studios, individual studios.
Title: Artists’s Houses in London 1764–1914, with photographs by Niall Doull-Connolly.
Author: Giles Walkley
Publisher: Scolar Press, Aldershot, Hants, England
Publication date: 1993
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket (25cm)
Total Pages: 281
Images: 180 illustrations and a comprehensive gazetteer
Condition: Very good. Discrete ownership inscription of Dr Alastair Grieve to front pastedown which is hidden behind the dust jacket flap.
Stock Number: RB02766
During the 150 years prior to 1914, British artists of all kinds, like their European counterparts, enjoyed esteem and prosperity on a steadily mounting scale. "Artists' Houses in London" reveals how the more ambitious painters and sculptors based in England's capital came to build an extraordinary range of workplaces in response to their rising status. These dwellings, the Victorian studio-house in particular, captivated a society increasingly receptive to artistic creativity. Giles Walkely brings to account numerous colourful examples, reanimating the once familiar artists' quarters of the West End by virtue of a commentary which highlights former local luminaries such as Leighton, Whistler, Alma Tadema and Herkomer. Designs by the most progressive contemporary architects, among them Webb, Shaw, Godwin and Voysey, are compared with previously unknown works by less celebrated figures. Here are the bright confections of the "Queen Anne" Revival, the passionate extremes of the Aesthetic School, Arts and Crafts models for the dream-houses of the end-of-century Free Style, and the inspiration for "l'esprit nouveau", yet to arrive. Complemented by 180 illustrations and a comprehensive gazetteer, this is a useful history, rich in social detail. "Artists' Houses in London" makes an informative guide to the most talked-about domestic architecture, interior design and popular art of the day. (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Contents: Introduction - elements of the genre / The groves of academe, 1769 / From Georgian contiguity to Victorian semi-detachment / Bourgeois empire-building / Establishment Kensington - Melbury Road
Eesthetic Chelsea - Tite Street / High Victorian Hampstead - Fitzjohn's Avenue / Decadent St John's Wood - Grove End Road / Mass-produced studios - terraces and flats / Home county hideouts
Not a common artistt's studio - photographic establishments / Fiction and faction in studioland
Riverrun and environs - a rallying round / Notes and references for chapters 1-12 / Gazetteer - multiple studios, individual studios.
Title: Artists’s Houses in London 1764–1914, with photographs by Niall Doull-Connolly.
Author: Giles Walkley
Publisher: Scolar Press, Aldershot, Hants, England
Publication date: 1993
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket (25cm)
Total Pages: 281
Images: 180 illustrations and a comprehensive gazetteer
Condition: Very good. Discrete ownership inscription of Dr Alastair Grieve to front pastedown which is hidden behind the dust jacket flap.
Stock Number: RB02766
During the 150 years prior to 1914, British artists of all kinds, like their European counterparts, enjoyed esteem and prosperity on a steadily mounting scale. "Artists' Houses in London" reveals how the more ambitious painters and sculptors based in England's capital came to build an extraordinary range of workplaces in response to their rising status. These dwellings, the Victorian studio-house in particular, captivated a society increasingly receptive to artistic creativity. Giles Walkely brings to account numerous colourful examples, reanimating the once familiar artists' quarters of the West End by virtue of a commentary which highlights former local luminaries such as Leighton, Whistler, Alma Tadema and Herkomer. Designs by the most progressive contemporary architects, among them Webb, Shaw, Godwin and Voysey, are compared with previously unknown works by less celebrated figures. Here are the bright confections of the "Queen Anne" Revival, the passionate extremes of the Aesthetic School, Arts and Crafts models for the dream-houses of the end-of-century Free Style, and the inspiration for "l'esprit nouveau", yet to arrive. Complemented by 180 illustrations and a comprehensive gazetteer, this is a useful history, rich in social detail. "Artists' Houses in London" makes an informative guide to the most talked-about domestic architecture, interior design and popular art of the day. (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Contents: Introduction - elements of the genre / The groves of academe, 1769 / From Georgian contiguity to Victorian semi-detachment / Bourgeois empire-building / Establishment Kensington - Melbury Road
Eesthetic Chelsea - Tite Street / High Victorian Hampstead - Fitzjohn's Avenue / Decadent St John's Wood - Grove End Road / Mass-produced studios - terraces and flats / Home county hideouts
Not a common artistt's studio - photographic establishments / Fiction and faction in studioland
Riverrun and environs - a rallying round / Notes and references for chapters 1-12 / Gazetteer - multiple studios, individual studios.
Title: Artists’s Houses in London 1764–1914, with photographs by Niall Doull-Connolly.
Author: Giles Walkley
Publisher: Scolar Press, Aldershot, Hants, England
Publication date: 1993
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket (25cm)
Total Pages: 281
Images: 180 illustrations and a comprehensive gazetteer
Condition: Very good. Discrete ownership inscription of Dr Alastair Grieve to front pastedown which is hidden behind the dust jacket flap.
Stock Number: RB02766
