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- Title
Staging Grounds: Loutherbourg and Warley.
- Authors
Bonehill, John
- Abstract
In 1778, Philippe‐Jacques de Loutherbourg began work on a pair of companion pictures marking George III's attendance at a spectacular military review on the broad expanse of Essex wasteland that was Warley Common. Scholars of the painter's art have largely overlooked these ambitious, large‐scale landscapes, but their commission and subsequent display at the Royal Academy played a key role in advancing Loutherbourg's career. Strikingly novel, the paintings attracted a good deal of critical attention for their curious mix of the patriotic and the satirical, the topographic and the scenographic. Taking its cue from this latter stage set‐like quality, this essay situates Loutherbourg's Warley scenes in relation to a series of dramatic spaces, moving from the 'battlefield' depicted to the London stage to the Academy exhibition room, highlighting a series of connections and interactions that shed new light on the performativity of Georgian art, culture and spaces of display.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; DE Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques, 1740-1812; PAINTING; GEORGE III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820; ROYAL Academy of Arts (Great Britain); GEORGIAN art (British)
- Publication
Art History, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 4, p778
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8365.12743