Cornelius Johnson - Karen Hearn
KORTE INHOUD
Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661) was a sympathetic and expressive painter, and it is surprising that he has not previously been the subject of a focused study. The quality and diversity of this currently littleknown artist's work will be a revelation. He worked on every scale - from the miniature to the full-length and big group portrait. His works, while always recognisably by him, reveal his exceptional flexibility and underline his response to successive influences. Johnson's career coincided with one of the most dramatically and politically intense periods of British and Dutch history, as this book will explore, and he portrayed some of the most important figures of the era. His royal portraits include Charles I as well as Charles II and James II, painted as children, and he collaborated with Gerard Houckgeest on a portrait of Charles I's wife, Queen Henrietta Maria. Despite having only received a few commissions from the crown, in 1632 he was appointed as "his Majesty's servant in the quality of Picture dra...
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2015Uitgever: Paul Holberton Pub.72 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1907372822ISBN-13: 9781907372827Koop dit boek tweedehands
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