Memory and mourning: posthumous portraiture in Britain from the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries
<p>This thesis focuses on posthumous portraiture produced in the years between 1760 and 1834 in Britain. It examines the strategies used by artists and their patrons to portray the dead during a period known as the ‘Age of Sensibility’ in which the expression of emotion gained heightened promi...
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2019
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