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Woman Behind the Painter: The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook

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Description:The wife of the prominent Victorian painter of seascapes, James Clarke Hook (1819-1907), Rosalie was a trained artist and brought her artist’s sensibility, her humour, and her talent for relationships to the project of writing a diary of their travels to Italy in the two turbulent years of the Risorgimento leading up to 1848. Rosalie’s subsequent diary records a busy professional couple in the thick of running a country home with studio, annual trips to the bracing coastal sites where Hook painted, and their relations with famous contemporaries. Juliet McMaster, a descendant of the Hooks, provides a fascinating introduction on their professional and personal lives. The book is illustrated throughout by Hook’s vivid sketches and by many of James’s and Rosalie’s paintings.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Woman Behind the Painter: The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook. To get started finding Woman Behind the Painter: The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The wife of the prominent Victorian painter of seascapes, James Clarke Hook (1819-1907), Rosalie was a trained artist and brought her artist’s sensibility, her humour, and her talent for relationships to the project of writing a diary of their travels to Italy in the two turbulent years of the Risorgimento leading up to 1848. Rosalie’s subsequent diary records a busy professional couple in the thick of running a country home with studio, annual trips to the bracing coastal sites where Hook painted, and their relations with famous contemporaries. Juliet McMaster, a descendant of the Hooks, provides a fascinating introduction on their professional and personal lives. The book is illustrated throughout by Hook’s vivid sketches and by many of James’s and Rosalie’s paintings.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Woman Behind the Painter: The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook. To get started finding Woman Behind the Painter: The Diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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