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Item Number: 132655
Title: Art, Artisans and Apprentices: Apprentice Painters & Sculptors in the Early Modern British Tradition
Author: Ayres, James
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781782977421
Description: London: Oxbow Books, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 536pp., 136 illus. Summary: Before the foundation of academies of art in London in 1768 and Philadelphia in 1805, most individuals who were to emerge as artists trained in workshops of varying degrees of relevance. Easel painters began their careers apprenticed to carriage, house, sign or ship painters, whilst a few were placed with those who made pictures. Sculptors emerged from a training as ornamental plasterers or carvers. Of the many other trades in a position to offer an appropriate background were ‘limning’, staining, engraving, surveying, chasing and die-sinking. In addition, plumbers gained the right to use oil painting and, for plasterers, the application of distemper was an extension of their trade. Central to the theme of this book is the notion that, for those who were to become either painters or sculptors, a training in a trade met their practical needs. This ‘training’ was of an altogether different nature to an ‘education’ in an art school. In the past, prospective artists were offered, by means of apprenticeships, an empirical rather than a theoretical understanding of their ultimate vocation. James Ayres provides a lively account of the inter-relationship between art and trade in the late 17th to early 19th centuries, in both Britain and North America. He demonstrates with numerous, illustrated examples, the many cross-overs in the ‘art and mystery’ of artistic training, and, to modern eyes, the sometimes incongruous relationships between the various trades that contributed to the blossoming of many artistic careers, including some of the most illustrious names of the ‘long’ 18th century
Appendices : Appendix I: Indenture of 1788: Isaac Dell ; Appendix II: Advertisement for a Stationer and Picture Dealer c. 1750-1759 ; Appendix III: Samuel Wale (?-d. 1786) as sign painter ; Appendix IV: Charles Catton (1728-1798) "The Prince of Coach Painters" ; Appendix V: John Baker RA (1736-1771), coach painter ; Appendix VI: Luke (Marmaduke) Cradock (1660-1717) the "Ornamental Painter" ; Appendix VII: Sign painting in Colonial and early Federal America ; Appendix VIII: Prices of house painters' work of 1799 ; Appendix IX: Stained hangings: early seventeenth and eighteenth century ; Appendix X: A sampling of individual painters or sculptors who left the English Provinces for Apprenticeships in London, Westminster or Southwark ; Appendix XI: Some of the many woodcarvers who later worked in stone and marble ; Appendix XII: The construction of an armature in John Flaxman's studio ; Appendix XIII: Prices in 1797 for ship-carving on Royal Navy vessels in relationship to tonnage ; Appendix XIV: Price list for lead statuary ; Appendix XV: Some members of the St Martin's Lane Academy ; Appendix XVI: Proposed accommodation and prospectus for the Royal Academy Schools ; Appendix XVII: Part of Gustav Waagen'S (1794-1868) evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Commons in 1834, on the value of Academies of Art.
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