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McHale
INGENIOUS ITALIANS
Katherine McHale received her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2018, after a thirty-year career as a lawyer. Her thesis, the basis for this book, continued her masters’ research at Hunter College, New York City, exploring the intersection between eighteenth-century Italian and British art. Her articles have been published in Master Drawings, Dieciocho, The British Art Journal, and The Georgian Group Journal. She has presented papers in New York, London, Venice, and Rome.
Front cover image: Capriccio with St. Paul’s and Old London Bridge, Antonio Joli, c. 1745, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. inside front flap: Rehearsal of an Opera, Marco Ricci, c. 1709, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. back cover image: Agostino Carlini, Francesco Bartolozzi, and Giovanni Battista Cipriani, John Francis Rigaud, 1778, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. inside back flap image: Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon, John Francis Rigaud, 1745, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.
INGENIOUS ITALIANS immigrant artists in eighteenth - century britain
Katherine Jean McHale
This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century art in Britain. Although immigrant Italian artists played a crucial role in the development of Britain’s expanding art world over the course of that century, they have been largely overlooked in books on both British and Italian art. When mentioned in works on eighteenthcentury British art, Italian artists are regarded as bit players who were tangential to the art world. Ingenious Italians seeks to correct this view, demonstrating the critical role played by immigrants who brought their skills and talents to a new country. In Britain, they established networks of Italian and British colleagues, cultivated new patrons and created innovative works for a growing market. In doing so, they influenced the development of art in British society. This little-explored facet of art history in Britain presents readers with a new perspective from which to consider the art of the era, highlighting the important work contributed by Italian artists in Britain. The book also contains an appendix of biographical information on the Italian artists working in Britain throughout the eighteenth century.