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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Artistic Patronage at the Court of Queen Charlotte

Abstract

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"Charlotte supported all types of visual culture, but especially of the so-called ""minor arts,"" such as engraving, embroidery, transparencies (illuminated paintings), wax modeling and miniature painting, fields which were traditionally open to or dominated by women. My dissertation demonstrates that Charlotte did not promote hierarchical distinctions prevalent in the larger art world, such as that between oil painting and the minor arts. Her patronage supplemented the limited opportunities available to women artists in other institutions and to create new career possibilities for women. The growth of such specifically feminine artistic patronage and production has, however, gone almost unnoticed by Georgian art historians. My dissertation supplies the history of one such circle: the alternative center for female creativity provided by Charlotte and the English court."

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Art History
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Strobel, Heidi Anne
Contributors dc:contributor
  • O'Brien, David

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3044233
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87364

Chain of custody

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www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Strobel, Heidi Anne. Artistic Patronage at the Court of Queen Charlotte. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87364