(BINDING.) Redgrave, Richard and Samuel. A Century of Painters of the English School. 2 volumes extended to 4. Thick 8vo, contemporary full green crushed morocco with raised bands, elaborate gilt-decorated spines, dentelles, and edges, joints on volumes 2 and 3 tender, rear joint of Volume 3 cracked, otherwise a handsome set. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1866
extra-illustrated with over 200 engraved portraits, views, original watercolor, and six alss by eminent artists. Praised as the "first popular account of British painting," this monumental work traces the evolution of English art from early English works modeled on Dutch masters to the emergence of the truly English style of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Constable, Turner, and others. Volume One contains letters signed by Angelica Kauffman and James Heath, and an original sketch and watercolor by John Opie. Subsequent volumes contain letters by J. M. W. Turner, Charles Robert Leslie and Henry Howard. The final letter, initialed but unidentified, is titled To the Memory of Sir George Beaumont.
