The Art of Mary Linwood
Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845
Series: Material Culture of Art and Design;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Date of Publication 26 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350428126
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 colour & 46 bw illus 700
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Long description:
The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work.
When British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the equivalent of ?5,199,822 in today's currency. As someone who made, but did not sell, embroidered replicas of famous artworks after artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, and Morland, how did she accumulate so much money? A pioneering woman in the male-dominated art world of late Georgian Britain, Linwood established her own London gallery in 1798 that featured copies of well-known paintings by these popular artists.
Featuring props and specially designed rooms for her replicas, she ensured that her visitors had an entertaining, educational, and kinetic tour, similar to what Madame Tussaud would do one generation later. The gallery's focus on picturesque painters provided her London visitors with an idyllic imaginary journey through the countryside. Its emphasis on quintessentially British artists provided a unifying focus for a country that had recently emerged from the threat of Napoleonic invasion.
This book brings to the fore Linwood's gallery guides and previously unpublished letters to her contemporaries, such as Birmingham inventor Matthew Boulton and Queen Charlotte. It also includes the first and only catalogue of Linwood's extant and destroyed works. By examining Linwood's replicas and their accompanying objects through the lens of material culture, the book provides a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on women and cultural agency in the early 19th century.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Plates
List of Figures
Introduction
1. Embroidery, Education, and Commerce: Linwood's Early Years
2. The Pantheon and Hanover Square Exhibitions
3. Portraiture, Publications, and Promotion
4. The Leicester Square Gallery: Performing British Patriotism
5. Of Students and Studying: The Academic Tradition and the Scripture Room
6. Linwood's Legacies
Appendix: Catalogue of Linwood's Textiles
Notes
Bibliography
