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Article: Private faces, public figures: David Platzer visits an ambitious survey of portraits in the age of revolution.(EXHIBITIONS)
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- February 1, 2007
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The end of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th saw subtle yet remarkable changes in portraiture, changes illustrated by the exhibition 'Portraits Publics, Portraits Prives, which travels this month from the Grand Palais, Paris, to the Royal Academy London. Members of the middle classes had themselves painted as if they were royalty or at least gentry, something that had been going on for centuries in mercantile capitals such as the Italian city states and Holland but which was new to France and England. In their turn, kings, queens and aristocrats had themselves pictured enjoying domestic life and rural pleasures. The private and the public became mixed as ...