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4 unusual facts about Mark Hallett


Dinosaur renaissance

Besides Bakker, key artists in this "new wave" were first Mark Hallett, Gregory S. Paul in the 1970s, and during the 1980s Doug Henderson and John Gurche.

Mark Hallett

Hallett is best known for his writings on eighteenth-century graphic satire and on Georgian portraiture, and on the artists William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds.

He has also published essays on the new exhibition culture of Georgian London and about the visual imagery of London and York in the eighteenth-century, and co-edited a catalogue on the work of the early-nineteenth-century painter William Etty.

'The Business of Criticism: the Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London' in David Solkin (ed.) Art on the line: the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, Yale University Press, 2001.



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