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.
Author(s): Penelope Jackson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 251
City: Cham
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
