The Holland Park circle : artists and Victorian society / Caroline Dakers

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.Notes; Map on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-294) and index. Contents; 1. Watts and his Early Patrons: the 1840s -- 2. Watts at Little Holland House; the Genesis of the Holland Park Circle: the 1850s -- 3. Building for Art in Kensington -- 4. Leighton, Aitchison and 2 Holland Park Road -- 5. Artist Comrades: Guns and Glees -- 6. Art and Society on Campden Hill -- 7. Howard, Webb and 1 Palace Green -- 8. The Ionides -- Patrons in Holland Park -- 9. The Aesthetic Interior -- 10. The Creation of Melbury Road: 1875 -- 11. Stone, Fildes and Shaw: 8 and 11 Melbury Road -- 12. The Thornycrofts, Burges, Hunter and Moore: 2, 9 and 14 Melbury Road and 1 Holland Lane -- 13. The Leighton Ascendancy -- 14. Prinsep, Webb and 1 Holland Park Road -- 15. The Studios of Holland Park. Subjects; Watts, George Frederick 1817-1904. Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton Baron 1830-1896. 1800-1899. Art and society England London History 19th century. Artists Homes and haunts England London History 19th century. Artists' studios England London History 19th century.