The Business of Portraiture in Georgian Britain - Angela Cox

Lecturer, art historian and trustee of the Friends of Kenwood House, London, Angela Cox, gives a talk on ‘The Business of Portraiture in Georgian Britain’.

The talk examines how portraits became commercialised in the 18th century. Angela Cox explains how different portraits and types evolved, discusses how studios operated and looks at the importance of the medium of print.

She focusses partly, but not exclusively, on the paintings which hang in the great art collection at Kenwood House, London, painted by some of the 18th century’s greatest artists, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and William Hogarth.  

Introduction and fade out music: Carl Friedrich Abel: Sonata for violincello and basso continuo in G major WKO 147; 3rd movement, Rondeau. Thomas Gainsborough painted two portraits of his close friend and fellow viola da gamba player, Abel in 1765 and 1777.


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