British Art

[J.B. Shank]

Michael Marrinan's four sequential courses on European Art 1660-1910 which
he gives at Stanford, and which are taken by both undergraduates and
graduate students in art history, are full of British Art. In fact, in his
first course, which covers art 1660-1770, his approach is as cosmopolitan
as the period itself, and British art and artists figure second only to the
French in terms of time of discussion/coverage. He particularly makes a lot
of the English-Venice-Naples connections, the role of English Conversation
pieces, the work of Hogarth, Wright of Derby, and the role of British
painters like Hamilton in Rome.

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J.B. Shank
Stanford Humanities Center
Mariposa House
Stanford, CA 94305-8630
Office: 415-725-1974
Fax: 415-723-1895
Home: 415-852-9621
ja...@leland.stanford.edu

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[Erin Colleen Blake]

In addition to Michael Marrinan's Eighteenth-century courses at Stanford,
which J.B. Shank just described so well (thanks, J.B.!), I was able to
study British art at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. As an
undergrad there, I took J. Douglas Stewart's class, "Holbein to Hogarth"
and Gerald Finley's "British Art 1760-1830," both largely based on
questions of patronage and artistic influence -- something of a specialty
at Queen's, where the importance of British art was never in doubt.
Queen's also offered graduate level courses, but I don't have a calendar
here to give me their topics.

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Erin C. Blake
Graduate Student
Art History
Stanford University
ecb...@leland.stanford.edu
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