William Blake Richmond, An Artist's Life 1842–1921
An illustrated biography by Simon Reynolds
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First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 25 × 18cm, xxvi + 386pp
William Blake Richmond (1842–1921) was the last of the Olympian coterie of Neo-Classical artists of the Victorian era and perhaps the one most deserving of reappraisal. He is best known for his controversial decorative plan in mosaics for St Paul's Cathedral, executed between 1891 and 1904 but he was also an outstanding portraitist—Gladstone and Bismarck were among his subjects as well as numerous beautiful women in Aesthetic society and their children. He also painted large mythological subjects, small landscapes from nature and worked in stained glass, fresco and sculpture. With the help of unpublished diaries, travel memoirs and letters in possession of the Richmond family, the author reconstructs Richmond's life around his artistic creation and gives a vivid insight into his social circle. Many of the paintings reproduced (there are over 150 illustrations) are in private ownership or unexhibited in galleries; and an appendix provides an extensive record of his exhibited work.
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This copy is in very good condition but there is a very slight forward lean to the spine and some light foxing to the pages' top edge.
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9780859552141