Edited by Geoff Quilley
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales.
Art for the Nation is a celebration of the key oil paintings that the National Maritime Museum holds in it's collections. This fascinating and lavishly illustrated book examines the reasons for and methods of the acquisition of the paintings in the Greenwich collection, and its larger importance to British art as a whole.
Through paintings by major artists such as the Van de Veldes, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Turner, Art for the Nation asserts the centrality of this extraordinary collection to British art and to the historical identification of Britain as a maritime nation.
- Paperback
- 126 pages
- ISBN: 9780948065767