Ranked with Ingres by Baudelaire as the finest draughtsman in Paris and matched as a political caricaturist in the nineteenth century only by Goya, Daumier worked for opposition newspapers and periodicals throughout the Second Empire, one of the most flamboyant and corrupt periods in French history. This book examines the artist's role as a professional newspaper artist and explores the more personal body of paintings and drawings which remained largely unknown during his lifetime.

This is the first edition of all Goya's known letters translated into English. His letters are witty, passionate, business like, amusing and occasionally, obscene. In these new translations Goya emerges as immensely likeable and many of his engravings, drawings and paintings, are shown to have emerged from episodes within his private life. As a major European painter of the Romantic period, Goya remains a monumental influence on the art of today partly through his courage and humanity in broaching subjects rarely, if ever, depicted by previous artists. This book of his letters allows the reader to see the private man as well as the public and professional artist who worked for powerful patrons, large institutions and personal friends.

This international best seller has been translated into Greek, French and Japanese . Drawing on little-known facts about Goya's life Sarah Symmons analyses his style, the type of dress worn by the fashionable men and women who sat for his portraits, his interest in the bull fight, in dreams and allegories and in an unusual range of media - fresco, mural, oil on many different surfaces, etching, aquatint, lithograph, miniatures on ivory , chalk, wash and pen drawings. Placing the artist within the historical context of his time she also traces the immense influence of his work throughout Europe and America and considers why present-day artists still find Goya's art a source of inspiration. This book has become a standard biography for students and a useful text for enthusiasts, connoisseurs and researchers.

Goya:In Pursuit of Patronage was one of the first biographies of the artist to address the influence of the artist's patrons on his work. Full of formerly unpublished and untranslated material this book was a milestone in Goya research. There are character studies of the private patron who admired the artist's more experimental pieces, accounts of court art and the importance of the Catholic Church and its patronage. There is also an analysis of Goya's free lance work and his attempts to broach the wider market and sell directly to the public, a professional attitude which anticipates the publicity-conscious artists of a modern society.

A popular introduction to the Spanish artist's work, this book was described by one contemporary reviewer as having "a text full of meat." It is a short biography with an illuminating choice of images and a useful bibliography.

This book established the British sculptor John Flaxman as a major graphic designer whose illustrations influenced artists throughout Europe in the 19th century. Flaxman's black and white outlines were explored by figures as diverse as Gericault, Degas, Goya and Seurat. A friend of William Blake Flaxman promoted the design patterns of British neoclassical draughtsmanship with an originality and eccentricity of composition which fascinated several generations of writers and artists. Containing much formerly unpublished material, the book presents Flaxman as a sculptor and designer of great individuality.