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TitleChain Pier, Brighton

Creator nameConstable, John

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1826-1827

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions127 × 183 cm

LocationTate, London

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-chain-pier-brighton-n05957

Accession numberN05957

SubjectsPiers in artSeaside resorts in artLandscape painting, British--19th century

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9. Landscape-O-Rama: The Exhibition Landscape at Somerset House and the Rise of Popular Landscape Entertainments

Ann Bermingham

Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836

REMARKING ON THE SIZE OF SOME of the entries in the Academy’s exhibition at Somerset House in 1818, the reviewer for the Literary Gazette...

Author

Ann Bermingham

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.127-143

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.015

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18342&redirecttoanchor=31113

Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, British--18th centuryArt, British--Exhibitions--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Panoramas--EnglandDioramas--EnglandTurner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851Landscape painting, British--19th century

8. The Imagery of Seaside Resorts and Modern Leisure

Andrew Hemingway

Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

~This chapter is concerned with the problems of representing the modern as constituted in the development of the seaside resort. It looks at the complex relationships between visual forms, aesthetic discourses, and social interests as they bore on the ambitions of landscape painters and on...

Author

Andrew Hemingway

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.155-215

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00073.013

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18007&redirecttoanchor=31113

Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, English--19th centurySeaside resorts in artArt criticismArt and societyNaturalism in art

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