Patrons’ Desire

Codell, Julie F.

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“…As the Rossetti Archive notes, arguing for the quality of this subject's several versions, 'the series of Beata Beatrix pictures clearly show his interest in using such work to reexamine and reinterpret his subject'. 83 Although almost all of Rossetti's autograph replicas were commissioned by and for patrons, 84 Rossetti disparaged his patrons for these commissions as signs of their limited tastes. Yet, creating replicas inspired him to sometimes make improving aesthetic revisions to both prior and subsequent versions.…”

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Multiple Versions, Multiple Markets, Multiple Meanings: Worldwide Trade in British Autograph Replicas

Codell¹

2022

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In this essay I explore relationships between Victorian artists' prolific production of autograph replicas and the wide global demand for these replicas. Autograph replicas, defined by Victorian artists as variations on a subject through changes in size, medium or image from a first version, were largely commissioned by patrons. This market was later driven by foreign collectors who avidly sought autograph replicas, believed to be original works, not copies, to raise their own nations' cultural image in the world. The functions and demands for autograph replicas have unique historical and cultural contexts, including conflicts between artists and patrons. I describe artists' surreptitious studio practices producing these works and the unique effect autograph replicas had on collecting and on art history in the context of this special issue's rethinking of British art and the global. Autograph replicas challenged boundaries between original and copy and disrupted art‐historical notions of chronology, originality, canonicity, and market intervention.

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Section: Replicas' Chronotope and Art Histories' Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiple Versions, Multiple Markets, Multiple Meanings: Worldwide Trade in British Autograph Replicas

Codell¹

2022

Art History

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Patrons’ Desire

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Multiple Versions, Multiple Markets, Multiple Meanings: Worldwide Trade in British Autograph Replicas

Multiple Versions, Multiple Markets, Multiple Meanings: Worldwide Trade in British Autograph Replicas

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