Lectures On Painting Delivered At The Royal Academy By Henry O'Neil, A.R.A. With Additional Notes And Appendix.

Henry Nelson O'Neil ARA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/3778

Author

Imprint

London:: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., 11, Bouverie St., E.C., 1866.

Physical Description

x, [ii], 140 p.; 198 mm. (Octavo.)

Contents

[Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Preface - Contents - [Text] - Appendix; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The printers' names appear on the t.p. verso and in the colophon: 'London: Bradbury, Evans, And Co., Printers, Whitefriars.'

The work is dedicated by Henry O'Neil to the President and the Members Of the Royal Academy of Arts.

References

R. Treble, Great Victorian pictures [exhibition catalogue] (1978); C. Wood, Victorian panorama (1976).

Summary Note

The work consists of the following lectures: I. On the character of nature in general, and on the mission of art; II. On portraiture, domestic and historical subjects, and on the causes and decline of art; III. On poetical and religious subjects; IV. General advice to students; and the Appendix, On the value of portraits to posterity. The caption-titles of each lecture state the date on which it was delivered: 1866 February 12; 1866 February 26; 1866 February 26; 1866 February 5 (perhaps the last date is a misprint, as the lecture opens with a reference to 'my previous Lectures'.

The author had been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1860, but held no posts in the Academy.

Binding Note

19th-century green cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers with blind-stamped borders, upper cover with gilt-stamped decoration centre; spine lettered 'Lectures On Painting - H. O'Neil.'

Name as Subject

Subject

Art - Painting - Portraits
Lectures - Great Britain - London - 19th century

Contributors