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Image, Identity and John Wesley: A Study in Portraiture
Contributor(s): Forsaith, Peter S. (Author)
ISBN: 0367884305     ISBN-13: 9780367884307
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $52.24  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - Methodist
- Art | History - General
- Art | Subjects & Themes - General
Dewey: 704.942
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.83 lbs) 210 pages
 
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The face of John Wesley (1703-91), the Methodist leader, became one of the most familiar images in the English-speaking and transatlantic worlds through the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After the dozen or so painted portraits made during his lifetime came numbers of posthumous portraits and moralising 'scene paintings', and hundreds of variations of prints. It was calculated that six million copies were produced of one print alone - an 1827 portrait by John Jackson R.A. as frontispiece for a hymn book.





Illustrated by nearly one hundred images, many in colour, with a comprehensive appendix listing known Wesley images, this book offers a much-needed comprehensive and critical survey of one of the most influential religious and public figures of eighteenth-century Britain. Besides chapters on portraits from the life and after, scene paintings and prints, it explores aspects of Wesley's (and Methodism's) attitudes to art, and the personality cult which gathered around Wesley as Methodism expanded globally. It will be of interest to art historians as a treatment of an individual sitter and subject, as well as to scholars engaged in Wesley and Methodist studies. It is also significant for the field of material studies, given the spread and use of the image, on artefacts as well as on paper.