Windows on that world: essays on British art presented to Brian Allen

Contents

Foreword / Amy Meyers -- Brian Allen: a personal memoir / Christopher White -- Brian Allen: a personal memoir / Jules David Prown -- Travellers in an unseen land / John Ingamells -- 'Subjects I consider'd as writers do': Hogarth and Swift / Duncan Robinson -- A cure for the captain: a sober look at Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin / Elizabeth Einberg -- 'All the quality of his pictures except the colour': Richard Wilson's drawings as collectors' items / Paul Spencer-Longhurst -- Location, location, location: Reynolds, Gainsborough and the view from Richmon Hill / Martin Postle -- Some artists' studios described in 1785 / Hugh Belsey -- The forgotten 'Athenian': drawings by Willey Reveley / Frank Salmon -- Late Romney, a re-appraisal / Alex Kidson -- Britain at peace and war: J.M.W. Turner's four 'State of the Nation' surveys, 1793-1836 / Eric Shanes -- Joseph Burke: an historian of eighteenth-century British art in the Antipodes / Patrick McCaughey -- The architecture of Arsenal / Steven Parissien