Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History – Volume 8 (2003)

Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History – Volume 8 (2003)

The SSAH annual journal is a leading Scottish periodical for the publication of new art historical research.

Volume 8 (2003), Collecting Italian Old Master Paintings in Scotland in the 18th and 19th Centuries, includes the following contents:

• Timothy Clifford - Introduction: Italian art in Scotland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
• Peter Humfrey - G. F. Waagen in Scotland
• Francis Russell - John, 3rd Earl of Bute, and Venice
• Iain Gordon Brown – ‘I understood pictures better than became my purse ...’: the clerks of Penicuik and Eldin as collectors and connoisseurs
• Stephen Lloyd - Italian paintings in the Scottish collections of the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry
• Claire Smith - The 4th Earl of Aberdeen as a collector of Italian old masters
• Godfrey Evans - The Hamilton Collection and the 10th Duke of Hamilton
• Shelagh Wemyss - Francis, Lord Elcho (10th Earl of Wemyss) as a collector of Italian old masters
• Robert Wenley - The 8th Marquess of Lothain as a collector of Italian old masters
• Vivien Hamilton - Italian old masters in Glasgow: resources for research
• Iain Gordon Brown - Venerating the Venetians? Some Scottish views of the painters of the golden age

About the Scottish Society for Art History

The SSAH was founded in 1984 to promote art history in Scotland. It is open to everyone interested in art, from those with a general interest to specialist scholars, students, teachers, curators, collectors and dealers.