Fishy business: Richard Wright’s The Fishery (1764), marine painting, and the limits of refinement

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Monks, Sarah (2008) Fishy business: Richard Wright’s The Fishery (1764), marine painting, and the limits of refinement. Eighteenth Century Studies, 41 (3). pp. 405-421. ISSN 1086-315X

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Abstract

Ordinarily marginalized for their commercially-driven subject-matter and artisanal practices, British marine painters were presented with a new opportunity in the 1760s: a public competition encouraging them to produce aesthetically-refined "works of art" commensurate with Britain's new identity as maritime and cultural world power. Through a close analysis of the first prize-winning painting (Richard Wright's The Fishery), its problematic subject-matter (the Society of Arts' "Land-Carriage Fish Scheme"), and the competition's scandalous disintegration, this article describes the anxieties, failures, and conflicts generated by such attempts to forge a culture of refinement within a society increasingly set against itself by commercialism and competitiveness.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Art History and World Art Studies
Related URLs:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053557
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:57
Last Modified:	08 Aug 2023 14:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9751
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