Author: Anne Crookshank; the Knight of Glin [Desmond Fitzgerald]
Title: The Painters of Ireland C. 1660-1920
Description: London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1979. Cloth. A very smart second edition of this illustrated work devoted to the paintings of Ireland. Second edition. Illustrated with sixty-five colour plates, two hundred and eighty-five monochrome images, and numerous head and tail pieces. Collated complete. A history of the paintings of Ireland from 1660 to 1920, including reference to the Irish social and artistic backgrounds of both native painters, those who worked across the seas, and foreign artists working from Ireland. With chapters on portrait painters, landscape painting, the Irish in Rome, decorative painters, the Act of Union, subject pictures, and the influence of Antwerp, Paris, Brittany, and London. Written by Anne Olivia Crookshank, a pioneering Irish art historian, and emeritus professor of the history of art at Trinity College Dublin, the department she established in 1966, and Desmond John Villiers FitzGerald, 29th and final Knight of Glin, an Anglo-Irish hereditary knight, and author. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Painters Ireland Crookshank Knight of Glin Ireland Not Stated


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