Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914: Volume I: Painting, Travel and National Identity c.1800-1860 [Hardcover]

This volume examines the ways in which Scottish identity was expressed through visual and material culture in the early to mid-nineteenth centuries, culminating in Victorias romanticisation of Scotland, or Balmorality. Key artists included Sir David Wilkie, Alexander Nasmyth and Henry Raeburn and later Horatio McCulloch who helped to perpetuate the myth of Scotland as a retrogressive, highland nation. In 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy was established in Edinburgh, providing artists with the opportunity to train and exhibit their work. Under Robert Scott Lauder at the Trustees Academy, a new generation of artists emerged, among them William McTaggart, who continued to engage with historical subjects, but who was more experimental in their approach. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of Art History and Scottish History.

This volume examines the ways in which Scottish identity was expressed through visual and material culture in the early to mid-nineteenth centuries, culminating in Victorias romanticisation of Scotland. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of Art History and Scottish History.

Following a period at the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut, Professor John Morrison joined the Art History Department at the University of Aberdeen in 1992? and went to be Head of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy. From July 2019 he became Head of the School of History and Heritage at the University of Lincoln. ?

Volume 1

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Volume 1 Introduction

 

Part 1. National Identity