The Magazine Antiques articles from August 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from August 2007

Medieval and Renaissance masterpieces.(Current and coming)
August 1, 2007... While on the hunt for artworks in Spain, the first superintendent of art collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, John Charles Robinson, wrote to a colleague in October 1866: "I am very anxious to get authority to buy... now is...

Metalwork in the aesthetic taste.(Current and coming)
August 1, 2007... The use of several different kinds of metal to create furniture and household accessories was fully investigated by designers and manufacturers at the end of the nineteenth century as part of the so-called aesthetic movement. Brass (a fusion of...

Nantucket in August.(Current and coming)
August 1, 2007... The Nantucket Antiques Show, which takes place at the Nantucket New School on that Massachusetts island from August 3 through August 5 (with a preview opening on the evening of August 2), makes this delightful locale a wonderful destination for...

Italian art in the Royal Collection.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... In 1623 the Prince of Wales--the future Charles I--went to Spain. His goal was to woo the sister of Philip IV, the Infanta Maria Anna, in order to effect both a marriage and an Anglo-Spanish alliance. Although his mission at Philips court was...

Impressionists by the sea.(Report from Europe)
August 1, 2007... Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the seaside was the preserve of the local populations who earned their livelihood on the water. All that changed with the advent of the railways, when summer holidaymakers transformed the beaches,...

Roentgen father and son.(Report from Europe)(Abraham and David Roentgen)
August 1, 2007... Abraham Roentgen was born near Cologne, Germany in 1711. He learned cabinetmaking in his father's workshop and, in 1731, traveled in the Netherlands and then to London, where he worked for a time. In 1742, having become a member of the Moravian...

Amateur architects.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... The grand tour so beloved by British aristocrats in the eighteenth century had a number of effects. The best known is the accumulation of works of art that found their way from Italy to the United Kingdom, as many wealthy tourists assembled...

The Shakers, an entrepreneurial sect.(Books about antiques)(Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands: A Survey of the Industries)(Book review)
August 1, 2007... In the antiques world, the Shaker sect, which flourished from the end of the eighteenth (reaching a peak around 1850), is exceedingly well known for the pared down and beautiful pieces of furniture and other household articles they crafted....

Another piece in the Fitz Henry Lane name puzzle.(Collectors' notes)
August 1, 2007... In the past couple of years it was discovered that the American painter long known as Fitz Hugh Lane, who had been baptized Nathaniel Rogers Lane, had officially changed his name to Fitz Henry Lane in 1832. (1) But, as with many other aspects...

Calendar.(Calendar)
August 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Classic New Mexico, 1898-1950: Paintings from Valley Collections"; to September 23. [??] "Mexico and Modern...

Antiques.(the Shakers)
August 1, 2007... Presently we came to the beginning of the village, and alighting at the door of a house where the Shaker manufactures are sold... we walked into a grim room, where several grim hats were hanging on grim pegs, and the time was grimly told...

Out of this world: shaker design, past, present, and future.
August 1, 2007... Shakers have always lived in communities separated from "the World"--people who do not share their religious beliefs--yet they have never been completely isolated from it. The physical and spiritual intersections between the Shakers and the...

The legacy of Herman Marcus and Marcus and Company, Part I, the early years, 1850-1892.(Biography)
August 1, 2007... When Herman Marcus (Fig. 2) arrived in New York City on May 22, 1850, he began a legacy in the jewelry business that would last for ninety-one years, passing from father to sons to grandsons. Whether he worked for other concerns or in...

Visions of summer: Ehrick Rossiter in Washington, Connecticut.
August 1, 2007... Here I am upon the round hilltop of Washington, C[onnccticu]T. It is a genuine old-fashioned New England town. The people in the region round about are agriculturalists and no railroads have introduced new-fangled notions." (1) With these words...

Four Ohio nineteenth-century folk artists.(Robert Seevers, Madison Houghton, Francis Sallas, and Manley Nehemiah Whipple)(Biography)
August 1, 2007... The so-called Three New England Watercolor Painters, Joseph H. Davis (1811-1865), Jane Anthony Davis (1821-1855), and J. Evans (w. c. 1830-1850), are well known to students of early American folk art. (1) By contrast, a larger group from a...

The browser.(Website list)
August 1, 2007... ANTIQUE SHOWS www.grandhotel.com Mackinac Island, Michigan. September 7-9, 2007. Carleton Varney's Antique & Design Fall Festival at Grand Hotel. Get expert advice from designer Carleton Varney. View and purchase top pieces from...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
August 1, 2007... April 12-November 10. Newport, RI. "THE LOOK! DORIS DUKE'S DAY & EVENING WEAR." Rough Point, the home of heiress Doris Duke, features a magnificent collection of European art, Chinese porcelains, and Flemish tapestries. "The Look! Doris Duke's...

Chateau de Versailles orange-tree planters.(Design notes)
August 1, 2007... On August 17, 1661, Louis XIV attended a fete given in his honor by France's superintendent of finance, Nicolas Fouquet, at his new estate, Vaux-le-Vicomte in Maincy. At this event, the king (who had only recently assumed total responsibility...