THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE

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Issue contents

Editorial

Paul Mellon (1907-99)

Articles

'So good with the humbler persons': Stubbs as portraitist
by JUDY EGERTON

Pietro Bellotti in England and elsewhere
by CHARLES BEDDINGTON

John Constable and the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1834, with an unpublished letter to Martin Cregan
by PHILIP McEVANSONEYA

The London context and critical reception of Robert Bevan's 'The cab horse' (1910)
by ROBERT UPSTONE

'Powerful emotive agents': the association between Ben Nicholson and John Piper
by FRANCES SPALDING


Book reviews

Mellon: An American Life, D. Cannadine  
by CELINA FOX

The Buildings of England: Shropshire, J. Newman and N. Pevsner
by WILLIAM MOSTYN-OWEN

Glory, Laud and Honour: The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation, G. Parry
by SIMON WATNEY

Fabricating the Antique, V. Coltman
by JONATHAN SCOTT

Letters of Uvedale Price, C. Watkins and B. Cowell
by RICHARD GREEN

William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, J. Bronkhurst
by MALCOLM WARNER

The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and their Circle, T.E. Stebbins, Jr., and V. Anderson
by CHRISTOPHER NEWALL

John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Complete Paintings, Vol. 4, R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray
by MARC SIMPSON

Peter Lanyon: Modernism and the Land, A. Causey
by MERLIN JAMES

 

Exhibition reviews

Paul Mellon's legacy
by HUGH BELSEY

Benjamin Robert Haydon and Charles Landseer
by RICHARD GREEN

The face of Childhood
by ERIKA LANGMUIR

Renaissance silver
by CHARLES TRUMAN

Kenneth and Mary Martin
by ALASTAIR GRIEVE

Richard Long
by JOHN HALDANE

Charles Mellin
by DOMINIQUE JACQUOT

Documenta 12
by LYNNE COOKE

Max Beckmann in Amsterdam
by SEAN RAINBIRD

Angelica Kauffmann
by WILLIAM HAUPTMAN

Calendar

Supplement

Recent acquisitions at National Museums Liverpool. This supplement is the sixth in a series of acquisitions in British museums which is generously supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation

 

In next month's issue

Alessandro Turchi's works in Spain

New documents for the Oratory of the Decollato in Valletta

A drawing after Donatello attributed to Raphael

A drawing by Pesellino

Ribera's 'Drunken Silenus'

Batoni's 'Sacred Heart of Jesus' painted for Il Gesú, Rome