British Art and the East India Company - 9781783275106

British Art and the East India CompanyAuthor(s): Geoff Quilley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783275106, 978-1783275106\nSynopsis\nExamines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state.\n\nThis book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new \""school\"" of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery, landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also cons.