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Author | : Jonathan Marsden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781909741607 |
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Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Queen's Galleries in London and Edinburgh, this book provides new insights into George IV as a collector. Although George led a life bounded by convention, he was a genuine connoisseur who was able to form an unrivalled collection of paintings, porcelain and furniture. These he presented and displayed in a series of architecturally adventurous spaces. His acquisitions continue to form the backdrop to royal ceremony, a legacy that is one of the principal pillars of today's magnificent Royal Collection.
Author | : Steven Parissien |
Publisher | : John Murray Publishers |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : George |
ISBN | : 9780719556524 |
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This biography aims to present George IV against the cultural background of his age, showing how his behaviour affected the contemporary view of both the monarch and the monarchy. It analyses the personal gifts of a man whose style defined an age.
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : New York : Harper & Row |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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The early years of the rakehell monarch whose dalliances and indiscretions are an effective mirror of the morality of his time.
Author | : E.A. Smith |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1999-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300184239 |
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This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch’s character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king’s contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler who was responsible for the decline of the power and reputation of the monarchy in the early nineteenth century. Now E.A. Smith offers a new view of George IV, one that does not minimize the king’s faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts. Smith explores the roots of the king’s character and personality, stressing the importance of his relationship with his parents and twelve surviving siblings. He examines the king’s important contributions to the cultural enhancement of his capital and his encouragement of the major artistic, literary, and scholarly figures of his time. He reassesses the king’s role as constitutional monarch, contending that it was he, rather than Victoria and Albert, who created the constitutional monarchy of nineteenth-century Britain and began the revival of its popularity. Smith’s biography not only illuminates the character of one of the most colorful of Britain’s rulers but also contributes to the history of the British monarchy and its role in the nation’s life.
Author | : M. J. Levy |
Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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The story of George IV's relationships with five women - the actress Mary Robinson, the Catholic Maria Fitzherbert, Lady Jersey, the arch-Tory Lady Hertford, and Lady Conyngham, the companion of his final years
Author | : George IV (King of Great Britain) |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arthur Aspinall |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 851 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250102790 |
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Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending on his homes, his clothes, and his women; his patronage of the arts; his 'illegal' marriage to Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, and lesser known facts such as his generous charity donations andhis witty one-liners, including one he uttered when he met his bride-to-be (Caroline of Brunswick) for the first time: 'Harris, I am not well, fetch me a brandy.' George IV was the son of George III (whowent insane and inspired 'The Madness of King George') and was the founder of the prestigiousKing's College in London.
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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What was it about George IV that made private friends, as well as political adversaries, so quick to see the weaknesses of the man and to ignore his qualities? This biography aims to reveal the clues behind such opinion.
Author | : Valerie Irvine |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184725053X |
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a highly readable account of a love match that pre-echoes the later relationship of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.