British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response
Edited by Inge Reist, The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950
14 essays examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United States. Unlike most of their Continental European counterparts, the English and Americans have historically been exceptionally open to collecting the art made by and for other cultures. At the same time, they developed a tradition of opening private collections to a public eager for educational and cultural advancement.
Introduction – Inge Reist
Part I: Reflections Across the Pond
Part I: Reflections Across the Pond
Pictures across the Pond: Perspectives and Retrospectives – Sir David Cannadine
The Revolving Door: Four Centuries of British Collecting – James Stourton
Part II—The British Model: Conversing with History
The Orléans Collection arrives in Britain – Jordana Pomeroy
James Irvine: Picture Buying in Italy for William Buchanan and Arthur Champernowne – Hugh Brigstocke
Aristocrats and Others: Collectors of Influence in 18th-Century England – Arthur MacGregor
A Decade of Change and Compromise: John Smith (1781–1855) and the Selling of Old Master Paintings in the 1830s – Julia Armstrong-Totten
‘Le Goût Rothschild’: The Origins and Influences of a Collecting Style – Michael Hall
The 4th Marquess of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace as Collectors: Chalk and Cheese? Or Father and Son? – Jeremy Warren
Collecting and Connoisseurship in England, 1840–1900: The Case of J. C. Robinson – Jonathan Conlin
Part III—Americans Embrace and Embellish the British Model
British Aspirations on the Chesapeake Bay: Robert Gilmor, Jr (1774–1848) of Baltimore and Collecting in the Anglo-American Community of the New Republic – Lance Humphries
The London Picture Trade and Knoedler & Co: Supplying Dutch Old Masters to America, 1900–1914 – M. J. Ripps
The One That Got Away: Holbein’s Christina of Denmark and British Portraits in The Frick Collection – Ross Finocchio
The Long Good-bye: Heritage and Threat in Anglo-America – Neil Harris
-Henry E. Huntington: An American Model for Collecting Art and Instituting Cultural Philanthropy – Shelley Bennett
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