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- Title
The Scene of the Sitting in Early Modern England.
- Authors
Eaker, Adam
- Abstract
This essay explores a body of early modern English literary sources that all focus on the portrait sitting. In their own writings, painters emphasized the social opportunities afforded by the sitting, but poets and playwrights were more likely to cast sittings as a threat to the social and sexual order. An engagement with seventeenth‐century anecdotes, poems, and plays that take the sitting as a motif provides a point of departure for new interpretations of paintings by Anthony van Dyck, Mary Beale, and Peter Lely, and for a discussion of the historical consciousness of seventeenth‐century English art. More broadly, an examination of the ambivalent response to portrait sittings in early modern art writing helps us to understand the continued hold of the sitting on our own contemporary myths of the studio.
- Subjects
17TH century portrait painting; ENGLISH portrait painting; ART criticism; VAN Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599-1641; BEALE, Mary, 1632-1699; SOCIAL order; SEVENTEENTH century; PORTRAITS
- Publication
Art History, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 4, p650
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8365.12354