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British art and the East India Company
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posted on 2023-06-09, 19:11 authored by Geoffrey QuilleyThis book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new "school" of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery, landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also considers how, for artists such as William Hodges and Arthur William Devis, the East India Company, and its provision of a wealthy market in British India, provided opportunities for career advancement, through alignment with Company commercial principles. In this light, the book's main concern is to address the conflicted and ambiguous nature of art produced in the service of a corporation that was the "scandal of empire" for most of its existence, and how this has shaped and distorted our understanding of the history of British art in relation to the concomitant rise of Britain as a self-consciously commercial and maritime nation, whose prosperity relied upon global expansion, increasing colonialism and the development of mercantile organisations.
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- Published
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Boydell and BrewerPages
370.0Place of publication
Woodbridge, SuffolkISBN
9781783275106Series
The Worlds of the East India CompanyDepartment affiliated with
- Art History Publications
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- Yes
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2019-10-01First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-09-26Usage metrics
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