The Art of Copying Art

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This book is a study of the history, role and significance of copying art. Copies have enjoyed a different status from authentic artworks and though often acknowledged, very rarely have they been considered collectively as a genre in their own right. This volume showcases a variety of examples—from copies of famous artworks made and used as props in movies to those made innocently by student artists as part of their training. Examining the motivations for making copies, and reflecting on the reception of copies, is central to this book. Copies have historically filled voids in collections, where some sadly languish, and have become a curatorial burden. In other cases, having a copy assists in conservation projects and fills the place of a lost work. Ultimately by interrogating a copy’s role and intent we might ask ourselves if viewing a copy changes our experience and perception of an artwork. Preface Acknowledgements Author Note A Note About Currencies A Note About Measurements Cover Image Contents About the Author List of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction: A Case for Copies Chapter 2: Apprentice Artists Art-Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery, Paris by Winslow Homer At the Louvre by Étienne Azambre In the Scottish National Gallery by Arthur Elwell Moffat British Court, National Art Gallery, Sydney Three Copies by Frances Hodgkins More Welcome Morsels Mary Cassatt’s Career Breakthrough Chapter 3: Copies for the Colonies The Russell Statues, Auckland War Memorial Museum Sir Stamford Raffles, Singapore Arthur Pan’s Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II Four British Monarchs The Wattle Portrait Raphael’s Madonna della Sedia53 The Robert Burns Quartet Chapter 4: Paintings-Within-Paintings The Art Museum Interior Copyists in the Gallery The Painter’s Painting in the Painting The Artist’s Studio Lost and Found Chapter 5: Education and Entertainment Mr Turner (2014) Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) The Return of The Wedding at Cana Monet and Matisse at Home At Home with Albrecht Dürer Clyfford Still’s ‘replicas’ Banksy Does Monet Chapter 6: Copies in Public Collections George Richmond’s Portrait of Charlotte Brontë Rosa Bonheur’s Ploughing in the Nivernais and The Horse Fair Velázquez and The Rokeby Venus George Coates and the Marriage of St Catherine Artemisia Gentileschi and Susannah and the Elders Hans Holbein and the Portrait of Jane Seymour Chapter 7: Protecting the Past The Lascaux Caves, France The Crucifixion by Pieter Brueghel the Younger The Horses of St Mark’s (Triumphal Quadriga) The Parthenon Marbles A Small Watercolour by John Kinder Chapter 8: Cash for Copies J. M. W. Turner’s The Wreck of a transport ship L. S. Lowry’s Mill Street Scene The Gift of Two Stubbs Paintings Ross Bleckner’s Sea and Mirror Chapter 9: Afterword: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff Glossary Bibliography Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Index