Rule Britannia? History painting in 18th-century Britain.(Cover Story)

History Today | June 1, 1995| | Copyright

The dearth of history painting is one of the most remarkable aspects of any survey of British painting between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and yet art historians have devoted little attention to this phenomenon. Of course, history paintings have almost always been difficult to sell - a form of commercial suicide for both artist and picture dealer alike - and we have only to glance at some past commentaries for confirmation.

As early as the 1750s, William Hogarth's friend, the Swiss miniature painter Andre Rouquet, in his interesting little book The Present ...

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