Research Catalog

Title

In trust for the nation : paintings from National Trust houses / Alastair Laing.

Author

Laing, Alastair

Publication

London : National Trust in association with National Gallery Publications, c1995.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• National Trust (Great Britain)
• National Gallery (Great Britain)

Description

256 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

• The National Trust looks after some of the finest collections of paintings in Britain, but because they are in houses all over the country, few appreciate their extraordinary wealth and variety. In Trust for the Nation brings together a fascinating selection of these treasures: grand full-length portraits by Van Dyck, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Romney; domestic images, such as Mrs Garnett, the Kedleston housekeeper, and Thomas Rogers, the Erddig carpenter; outstanding.
• Old Masters by Titian, Velazquez and Rembrandt; jewel-like cabinet pictures by 17th-century Dutch and Flemish artists such as Steen, Metsu, Ter Borch, Breughel and Teniers; intimate narrative pictures and conversation-pieces by Hogarth, Mercier, Zoffany and Devis; ideal landscapes by Claude and Hobbema, cityscapes by Cuyp and Bellotto, and English views by Turner and Benjamin Williams Leader; and rarities like Wyck's amusing A Dutch Mastiff with Dunham Massey in the.
• Background, which reflects the British love of animals and country house views. This book also serves as a permanent record of the exhibition held at the National Gallery in London to celebrate the National Trust's Centenary in 1995. All the exhibits are analysed in detail and reproduced in colour. They are grouped in thematic chapters that reflect the way the British have collected and displayed pictures since the 17th century. The catalogue entries are followed by a.
• Gazetteer of the picture collections from which they have been drawn. Together they make an important contribution to our understanding of British art patronage and collecting.

Alternative Title

Paintings from National Trust houses

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Painting, Modern > Private collections > Great Britain > Exhibitions
• Painting, European > Exhibitions
• Painting > Great Britain > Exhibitions
• Painting, European > Great Britain > Exhibitions
• National Trust (Great Britain) Art collections > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery, London, Nov. 22, 1995-Mar. 10, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-252) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The portrait gallery -- Conversation-pieces, narrative painting and sporting art -- Topographical landscape -- Ideal landscape -- The picture gallery -- The cabinet -- Gazetteer.

ISBN

• 0707802601
• 0707801958 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 34545012
• SCSB-11565371

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library