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Scottish Portraiture 1644-1714. David and John Scougall and Their Contemporaries
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 2 vols, 756 pages, Size:225 x 300 mm, Illustrations:1265 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503597270.
Summary This book is the first comprehensive publication on Scottish portraiture from the period 1644 to 1714, with an emphasis on the painters David Scougall (1625-1685), and his son John Scougall (1657-1737). It is based on in-depth art historical and archival research. As such, it is an important academic contribution to this thus far little-researched field. Virtually nothing was known about the Scougall portraitists, who also include the somewhat obscure George Scougall (active c. 1690-1737). Thorough archival research has provided substantial biographical information. It has yielded life dates and data on family relations and, also, it has become clear that David Scougall had two parallel careers, as a portrait painter and as a writer (solicitor). The legal community in which the Scougalls were embedded has been defined, as well as an extended group of sitters and their social, economic, and family networks. The book includes a catalogue raisonné of the oeuvre of David Scougall. The most important contemporaries of the Scougalls were the portraitist L. Schüneman (active c. 1655/60-1667 or slightly later), his successor James Carrudus (active c. 1668-1683 or later), whose work is identified for the first time in this book, David Paton (c. 1650-in or after 1708), Jacob Jacobsz. de Wet (1641/42-1697) and Sir John Baptist Medina (1659-1710). Their lives and work are discussed. An extensive survey of Scottish portraits, with an emphasis on the work of the Scougall painters, is presented for the period 1644 to 1714. Numerous attributions to various artists and sitter identifications have been established or revised. An overview of the next generation is provided, in which the oeuvres and biographical details are highlighted of the principal portrait painters, such as William Aikman (1682-1731), Richard Waitt (1684-1733) and John Alexander (1686-1767). Countless paintings have been photographed anew or for the first time, and have been compared in detail, which had hardly been done before, while information is also included on technical aspects and (original) frames. The resulting data have been complemented by analysing the social and (art-) historical context in which the portraits were made. The works of the portrait painters in Scotland from this period, as this book shows, now form a solid bridge between the portraits painted prior to George Jamesone's death in 1644, and those by the renowned Scottish painters of the eighteenth century. TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I Abbreviations - Foreword - Acknowledgements Introduction Current State of Published Research on the Scougalls and Their Circle and the Appreciation of Their Work Through the Centuries The Elder Scougall/Old Scougall and the Younger Scougall Dates and Scarcity of Known Archival Material Artistic Context: Painting in Scotland, the Start of a Portrait Tradition, c. 1575-1660 David Scougall (Edinburgh, 1625-1685), His Life and Career Emerging from the Shadows Father and Son, John (d. after 13 October 1627) and David (1625-1685) Writer and Painter Family Patrons The Outset of a Career Father and Son, David (1625-1685) and John (1657-1737) The Advocate's Close The Profession of a Writer or Clerk in the Time of David Scougall The Profession of a Painter in the Time of David Scougall Possible Teachers and Family Creativity Decline and Death Skougall or Scougall Personal Network, Legal Community and Further Family Relations John Scougall (Edinburgh, 1657-1737), His Life and Career A Long and Prosperous Life Becoming a Limner Family Patrons Increased Prosperity Lack of Competition 1694: A Year of Important Changes Decline in Skill and Death David Scougall: The Oeuvre, Characteristics, Development and Sources of Inspiration The Outset of a Career Core Works, the Basis for a Compilation of the Oeuvre Associated Works Miniatures or Pocket Pictures Stylistic Features and Motifs Consistency in Style Late Works, 1675-1685 Technical Aspects of David Scougall's Paintings Technical Research and Painting Technique Painting Materials David Scougall as a Copyist Costumes and Jewellery Use of Motifs from Portraits by Other Painters No Inventor, but Painting Real People Production Studio Practice and Legal Community John Scougall: The Oeuvre, Characteristics, Development and Sources of Inspiration The Early Years Indisputable Works Associated Works Use of Motifs from Portraits by Other Painters Stylistic Features and Motifs Technical Aspects of John Scougall's Paintings Technical Research and Painting Technique John Scougall as a Copyist Production Mending and Washing Studio Practice and Apprentices George Scougall (b. 1670?, active c. 1690- c. 1737) Lack of Biographical Data In the Studio of John Scougall Inadequate Traces of Work Clients/Sitters Nobility and Clergy Clients and Religious Beliefs Loyal Patrons Bonding Portraits Competition from Abroad Ladies and Gentlemen Portraying Children Problems in Sitter Identification Known Sitter, but Problem in Period and Handling Portraits Telling the Truth? Scougall's Clients, Where Were They Based, and the Painter's Studio Backs and Frames The Back of the Painting Period Frames Prices for Portraits and Frames Prices for Portraits by David Scougall 1664-1683 Prices for Portraits by John Scougall 1674-1728 Prices for Frames The Contemporaries of the Scougalls John Michael Wright (1617-1694) L. Schüneman (active c. 1655/60-1667 or shorty after) James Carrudus (active 1671 or earlier-1683 or later) David Paton (c. 1650-in or after 1708) Thomas Murray (1663-1735) Jacob Jacobsz. de Wet (1641/42-1697) Portraits, Painters Unknown Painters, Portraits Unknown Sir John Baptist Medina (1659-1710) The Next Generation William Aikman (1682-1731) Richard Waitt (1684-1733) John Alexander (1686-1767) John Smibert (1688-1751) And Beyond Summary and Conclusion Appendices Appendix I The Scougall Family, Reconstruction of the Family Tree Appendix II Transcriptions of Various Archival Documents Concerning the Scougall Painters Appendix III The Mysterious Portrait of 'John Scougall' Appendix IV Transcription of the Memoir by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 1st Baronet (1649-1722) of His Wife Elizabeth Henderson, Lady Clerk (1658-1683) ? VOLUME II Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings by David Scougall (1625-1685) Introduction Glossary Catalogue A Authentic Works Catalogue AW Works Known Only from Written Sources Catalogue B Copies by David Scougall After Works by Others Catalogue C Doubtful Works Catalogue D Works Known Only Through Copies and Prints Catalogue E Rejected Works Concordance Notes Bibliography Websites Guides to Houses and Other Venues Exhibitions Inserted Details Index
The Radical: An Autobiography. By the Author of ""The Member, ""The Ayrshire Legatees"", etc. etc. - [WHO IS JOHN GALT?]
London, 1832 A lovely contemporary full calf binding with Gilt spine, gilt and blindstamped border-ornamentations and gilt armorial centre-piece to boards. Some wear to extremities and hinges. Nice and tight. Internally very nice and clean, with only occasional, very light minor brownspotting.
The scarce first edition of one of the main works of John Galt, the first political novelist in the English language. Althought the name ""Gohn Galt"" is now primarily associated with the main character of Ayn Rand's modern political classic ""Atlas Shrugged"", the ""real"" John Galt (1779-1839) was one of the best known Scottish political and social novelists of the 19th century. Like Rand's John Galt, he too was an entrepeneur, greatly active in political and social issues. Because he was the first novelist to deal with issues of the industrial revolution, he has been called the first political novelist in the English language.""The Radical"" is a study of religion, politics and law in the local boroughs of Scotland during the transitional late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As several of his other novels, it is concerned with the effects of change upon communities and upon the social institutions that shape those communities. The work is famous for its, prosaic studies, that are, however, far from dry, and Galt’s storytelling is known to be characterised by wit and humour.Together ""The Radical"" and ""The Member"" (also 1832) make up what John Galt himself calls ""the Reform"", as he states in his autobiography, ""they serve to illustrate, by the by, the sagicity of the trade, for they are thought to have too much a seeming of truth, and the sale of them has not been satisfactory. [...]The Radical [...] is deduced from principles and feelings coeval with human nature. It seems to me that the Radicals of our time forget that we are living in society for the benefitsof which we have surrendered a portion of our natural rights. The work in consequence turns on supposing, that what our natural feelings prompt must therefore be what we are entitled to do and to enjoy, forgetting altogether how much the social ties restrain the exercise of natural rights. But although some of my friends think the two works clever and philosophical, and although, on the Continent they have attracted more attantion than any other product of my pen, they have almost been still-born here. [...]."" (John Galt, The Literary Life and Miscellanies of John Galt, 1834, pp. 318-19). John Galt was born in Irvine as the son of a sea captain who traded with the West Indies. In 1789 the family moved to Greenock and much of Galt’s fiction draws from the localities of the west coast of Scotland where he spent his youth. John Galt was possessed of a pragmatic as well as an imaginative turn of mind. He had a keen interest in business and politics and always maintained that he regarded writing as a secondary profession. From 1796 - 1804 Galt worked as a junior justice clerk in Greenock before setting off for London on a sudden impulse of restless ambition. Here he studied political economy and commercial history and practise but failed to really make his mark on the business world despite several promising ventures.Around the age of twenty-four Galt began writing. He experimented in verse but was an inferior poet. Several of his essays, however, were published and this writing at this time demonstrates his early interest in politics and the colonies, particularly Canada which had long captured his imagination.In 1809 Galt spent a period of time travelling on the Mediterranean and it was here that he made his acquaintance with Lord Byron who was to become the subject of his acclaimed biography The Life of Byron in 1830. In 1811 he returned to London, his commercial aspirations disappointed and turned to journalism as a means of making money. At 34, he married the daughter of his literary patron, Alexander Tilloch. It was at this time too that Galt gained his experience of the workings of Parliament as a lobbyist for the Edinburgh-Glasgow canal. These experiences were to be formative in Galt’s later political career in Canada and were also to inform his later political novels, The Radical and The Member.Despite critical and commercial success, Galt had not abandoned his business aspirations. In 1824 Galt became actively involved in political campaigning on behalf of the Canadian colony and two years later left for Canada leaving the manuscript for The Last of the Lairds with his publisher. During the years 1827-29 Galt developed the virgin territories of the Canadian colony and founded the townships of Guelph and Goderich. For Galt, the Canadian project was the realisation of his most profound ambitions. But he was to fall foul of colonial bureaucracy and was eventually forced to return to Britain in 1829 under charges of debt and placed in prison.Having returned to Britain, John Galt began writing again, and in 1832 he produced two of his most famous works, ""The Radical"" and ""The Member"", for which he is primarily remembered today.
DISQUE VINYLE 33T : LA RENAISSANCE ANGLAISE - Deller Consort, dir. A. Deller. Lute Songs: It Was A Love And His Lass (Thomas Morley), Take, O Take Those Lips Away (John Wilson), O Mistress Mine (Thomas Morley), Strike It Up Tabor (Thomas Weelkes)...
HARMONIA MUNDI. NON DATE. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Coffret en couleurs. 3 disques. Deller Consort, dir. A. Deller. Lute Songs: It Was A Love And His Lass (Thomas Morley), Take, O Take Those Lips Away (John Wilson), O Mistress Mine (Thomas Morley), Strike It Up Tabor (Thomas Weelkes), Willow Song (Anonymous), Where The Bee Sucks (Robert Johnson), How Should I Your True Love Know (Anonymous), Walshingham Variations (Francis Cutting), We Be Soldiers Three (Anonymous), Miserere My Maker (Anonymous), Shall I Sue (John Dowland), I Care Not For These Ladies (Thomas Campion), Come Heavy Sleep (John Dowland), Of All The Birds (John Bartlet), I Saw My Lady Weep (John Dowland), Wilt Thou Unkind (John Dowland), The Cypress Curtain (Thomas Campion). Musique instrumentale, Madrigaux, Anthems: Prayer To Hezekiah (Orlando Gibbons), Behold Thou Hast Made My Days (Orlando Gibbons), Pavan (Orlando Gibbons), The Secret SIns (Orlando Gibbons), O Lord In My Wrath (Orlando Gibbons), Great King Of Gods (Orlando Gibbons), Song Of Moses (Orlando Gibbons), Joyne Hands (Thomas Morley), Now, O Now I Needs Must Part (John Dowland), O Let Me Live (Thomas Tomkins), Sola Soletta (Thomas Morley), If That Sinner Sighs (John Dowland), Almighty God (Thomas Morley), My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (John Dowland). Musique sacrée: Les Lamentations de Jérémie Le Prophète (Thomas Tallis), Messe à Cinq Voix (William Byrd).. . . . Classification : 410-33 Tours
Disque n° HM 260. Classification : 410-33 Tours
Livres de France n° 1 - Saint-John Perse par Alain Bosquet, Une lettre de Saint John Perse sur l'expession poétique française, Un poème de Saint John Perse, Oeuvres de Sain John Perse, Les prix littéraires par Domino, Les prix Goncourt de John Antoine Nau
Bureau de la revue. Janvier 1959. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 30 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française
Sommaire : Saint-John Perse par Alain Bosquet, Une lettre de Saint John Perse sur l'expession poétique française, Un poème de Saint John Perse, Oeuvres de Sain John Perse, Les prix littéraires par Domino, Les prix Goncourt de John Antoine Nau a Francis Walder Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française
John of Garland's De triumphis Ecclesie. A new critical edition with introduction and translation
, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 417 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:10 col., Languages: English, Latin. ISBN 9782503585116.
Summary This is the first translation in any language of John of Garland's poem about the historical events of his lifetime (c. 1195- c. 1258), together with revised Latin text, introduction and notes. This work gives a vivid picture of Anglo-French relations, of studies in Toulouse after the Albigensian Crusade, and of the need for faith following Louis' catastrophic defeat in the Seventh Crusade. John gives us insights into his own life, and a stream of stories, holy and profane. The translation and notes bring to life for a wide range of medievalists this eye-witness account by an Englishman in France of major events of the age, especially 1242-52. They make clear John's debts to classical authors and to contemporaries, especially Alan of Lille and Matthew Paris. Through re-ordering the lines, this edition now generates clarity from the single manuscript. It also offers fresh insights and a new perspective on John of Garland himself. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1. Life and Works of John of Garland Chapter 2. The Manuscript Tradition and Previous Scholarship Chapter 3. De triumphis Ecclesie Chapter 4. Literary Influences and Sources Chapter 5. John's Teaching and Preaching Chapter 6. 'Arma crucemque cano': Church and Crusade Chapter 7. The Main Political Sub-Plots Chapter 8. Countering the 'Other': Heretics, Mongols, Jews, and Muslims Chapter 9. The Seenth Crusade (1248-54) Chapter 10. Conclusions Critical Edition (with translation on facing pages) Guide to the text Preface Prologue Book 1-8 Bibliography
