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Introduction: 25 Park Lane, March 1930
Kate Retford
Description: The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
In the spring of 1930, an exhibition entitled English Conversation Pieces opened in Park Lane in London, organised by Sir Philip Sassoo...
Author
Kate Retford
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2017 by Kate Retford
Related print edition pages: pp.1-31
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.1
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23266
Chapter subject tags:Art--England--London--ExhibitionsConversation piece (Portrait painting)Vertue, George, 1684-1756Portrait painting, British--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryEngland--Social life and customs--18th centuryZoffany, Johann, 1733-1810

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