‘How to observe’: Charles Eastlake and a new professionalism for the arts

This essay examines the changing role of the museum professional and the practice of connoisseurship in the middle third of the nineteenth century in Britain. My case in point is Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, a successful painter who assumed a position of unparalleled power in the major institutions an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lucy Hartley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/hartley.pdf