Philip Hensher

The age of the starving artist

A review of A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by James Hamilton. A brilliant account of learning, or failing, to survive in a market of extraordinary brutality

Who’s in, who’s out: George Bernard O’Neill’s ‘Public Opinion’ depicts a private view of the annual exhibition at the Royal Academy [Bridgeman] 
issue 26 July 2014

  • A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    James Hamilton

    Atlantic Books, pp. 400

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