Research Catalog

Title

Daniel Cottier : designer, decorator, dealer / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Max Donnelly ; with Andrew Montana and Suzanne Veldink.

Author

Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate

Publication

• London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Donnelly, Max
• Montana, Andrew (Andrew William)
• Veldink, Suzanne

Description

vii, 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

"This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838-91) from an apprentice coach painter in Glasgow to the founder of Cottier & Co., a fine and decorative arts business with branches on three continents. This gifted designer and brilliant art entrepreneur keenly spotted one of the key aspects of late 19th-century bourgeois culture-its focus on family, home, and church-and seized the artistic and commercial opportunities of the building and decorating boom that it brought about. Cottier was a proponent of Aestheticism, an international trend in the history of culture, art, and design from about 1860 to 1900: he understood the era's desire for beauty and realized the economic possibilities of its commoditization. Beyond biography, therefore, this book illuminates a significant event of late 19th-century cultural history- Aestheticism's cult of beauty meeting with the bourgeoisie's financial ability to possess it."--Jacket flap.

Subject

• Cottier, Daniel, 1838-1891 > Criticism and interpretation
• Cottier, Daniel, 1838-1891
• Artists > Scotland
• Artists
• Scotland

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.

Contents

Scotland 1838-1869 / Max Donnelly -- London 1870-1908 / Max Donnelly -- The art market in Britain / Suzanne Veldink -- New York 1873-1915 / Petra Chu -- The art market in New York / Petra Chu -- Sydney 1873-1886 / Andrew Montana -- Sydney & Melbourne 1887-1924 / Andrew Montana.

Call Number

JQF 22-992

ISBN

• 9781913107185
• 1913107183

OCLC

1242798133

Author

Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate, author.

Title

Daniel Cottier : designer, decorator, dealer / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Max Donnelly ; with Andrew Montana and Suzanne Veldink.

Publisher

London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.

Added Author

Donnelly, Max, author.

Montana, Andrew (Andrew William), contributor.

Veldink, Suzanne, contributor.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-992