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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Crafts, Trades, Artisans & Guilds
Chapter 1: Art & Mystery
Chapter 2: The guilds & livery companies
Chapter 3: Guild regulation of training
Chapter 4: Indentured apprenticeships
Chapter 5: The craft trades & the visual arts
Part 2: Painters
Chapter 6: The art of picture craft
Chapter 7: The materials of painters
Chapter 8: Painter Stainers
Chapter 9: The painters: mechanic & liberal
Chapter 10: Easel painting
Chapter 11: The trade of painting in oil
House & decorative painting
Sign painting & making
Coach painting
Marine painting
Chapter 12: Size painting
Stained hangings
Stained transparencies
Scene painting for the theatre
The plasterers
Chapter 13: Limning & watercolour painting
Limning
Watercolour painting
Part 3: Sculptors
Chapter 14: Sculpture
Chapter 15: Modelling in clay & casting in plaster
Modelling
Casting in plaster
Chapter 16: The pointing machine
Chapter 17: Carving
Woodcarving
Stone & marble carving
Chapter 18: Metal casting & the foundry
Chasers & chasing
Die-sinking & seal-cutting
Part 4: The Emergence of Academies of Art
Chapter 19: The emergence of academies of art
Chapter 20: Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix I: Indenture of 1788: Isaac Dell
Appendix II: Advertisement for a Stationer and Picture dealer c. 1750–1759
Appendix III: Samuel Wale (?–d. 1786) as sign painter
Appendix IV: Charles Catton (1728–1798) “The Prince of Coach Painters”
Appendix V: John Baker RA (1736–1771), coach painter
Appendix VI: Luke (Marmaduke) Cradock (1660–1717) the “Ornamental Painter”
Appendix VII: Sign painting in Colonial and early Federal America
Appendix VIII: Prices of house painters’ work of 1799
Appendix IX: Stained hangings: early seventeenth and eighteenth century
Appendix X: A sampling of individual painters or sculptors who left the English Provinces for apprenticeships in London, Westminster or Southwark
Appendix XI: Some of the many woodcarvers who later worked in stone and marble
Appendix XII: The construction of an armature in John Flaxman’s studio
Appendix XIII: Prices in 1797 for shipcarving on Royal Navy vessels in relationship to tonnage
Appendix XIV: Price list for lead statuary
Appendix XV: Some members of the St Martin’s Lane Academy
Appendix XVI: Proposed accommodation and prospectus for the Royal Academy Schools
Appendix XVII: Part of Gustav Waagen’s (1794–1868) evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Commons in 1834, on the value of Academies of Art
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
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