Seeing Double: Portraits, Copies, and Exhibitions in 1820s London
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA
24 June-19 September 1010
In 1829, the young artist John Scarlett Davis sought to make a splash on the London art scene with his painting The Interior of the British Institution Gallery. An image of an art exhibition, the painting is also an elaborate visual puzzle. Seeing Double: Portraits, Copies, and Exhibitions in 1820s London invited viewers to decode this puzzle, and in the process explore the relationship between display and replication in early nineteenth-century Britain. (…more at Yale website…)