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William Hodgson of London and Richmond: The Payne Limner Revealed
Hodgson seems to have been a
true jack-of-all-trades. In addition
to portraits, miniatures, and hairwork for jewelry, he supplied composition ornament and carved architectural woodwork for buildings.
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About The Magazine ANTIQUES Since its inception in 1922, The Magazine ANTIQUES has been America’s premier publication on the fine and decorative arts, architecture, preservation, and interior design. Each bimonthly issue includes regular columns on current exhibitions, personalities in the field, notes on collecting, book reviews, and more. Meet the Team GREGORY CERIO Editor Gregory is the sixth editor since …
American vernacular rococo
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2013 | About 1736 John Lewis (1678-1762) of Ulster, County Donegal, Ireland, killed his impetuous young landlord, “cleaving in twain his skull,” and then fled to Philadelphia in the American colonies. The following year his wife Margaret Lynn Lewis (1693-1773) and their four sons joined him. Informed that he was still a wanted man, Lewis …
Beyond moonlight and magnolias
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September/October 2012 | “When I met Frank Horton and saw the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in 1976, I put down the Confederate flag and picked up a chair leg. How much better to see the South through its art, to understand its identity through its achievements rather than through the sacrifice of war. Here …
The discovery of William Black
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, July/August 2012 | When the late southern decorative arts expert and author John Bivins Jr. published his 1968 book on early North Carolina firearms, he noted that, “among surviving implements…of early America and the South, few art forms have stirred the imagination more than the American longrifle.”1 Created by craftsmen working in rural communities, long rifles …
Miniature discoveries
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, January/February 2012 | The recent appearance of two portrait miniatures leads to new information about backcountry South Carolina artist Isaac Brownfield Alexander. Last year Elle Shushan, a leading expert on portrait miniatures, alerted curators at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) about the pending sale of a rare work by a southern artist-a delightful …
Servitude and Splendor
The craftsmen and carved furniture of the Rappahannock River valley, 1740 to 1780
Inside Job
A Columbia Museum of Art exhibition explores artistic depictions of interior scenes and the applied and decorative arts in early twentieth-century America.
Leash Common Denominator
Some notes on art, design, and historical artifacts related to dogs.