Catalogue of a loan exhibition held at the National Gallery, Nov. 3, 1985- Mar. 16, 1986.
Contents:
Temples of the arts / Gervase Jackson-Stops -- The power house / Mark Girouard -- Portraiture and the country house / Oliver Millar -- The Englishman in Italy / Brinsley Ford -- The British as collectors / Francis Haskell -- The backward look / John Cornforth -- The last hundred years / Marcus Binney and Gervase Jackson-Stops -- From castle to country house : The Tudor Renaissance ; The Jacobean Long Gallery ; Anglo-Dutch taste and restoration opulence ; Triumph of the baroque -- The grand tour : Lord Burlington and the Palladian revolution ; Souvenirs of Italy ; The sculpture rotunda ; Augustan taste ; The Dutch cabinet ; Landscape and the picturesque -- The gentleman collector : The country house library ; Chinoiserie and porcelain ; The sporting life ; The Waterloo Gallery -- The romantic vision : The Highlands and the Victorian spirit ; The pre-Raphaelite era ; Edwardian elegance and the continuing tradition ; Epilogue : Life in the country house.
Subject Terms:
Art patronage -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. | Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. | Country homes -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. | Manors -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. | Art patronage. | Art -- Private collections. | Country homes. | Manors. | Great Britain. | Landhuizen. | Kunst.