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Ut pictura poesis: Edward Black Greenshields' Collection of Hague School Paintings
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Ut pictura poesis: Edward Black Greenshields' Collection of Hague School Paintings
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According to the author, Edward Black Greenshields (1850-1917) and the rest of Montreal's predominantly English-speaking "merchant princes" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century formed a new class of art collectors rapidly purchasing European paintings. Greenshields, a noted businessman and amateur scholar, orchestrated the largest and most concentrated private amassing of "modern" Dutch works by artists known associated with the Hague School. The author investigates the nature of Greenshields' engagement with the Hague School and how as a collector and promoter of the group's work, he influenced the group's reception in Canada. At the height of his collecting Greenshields published two texts, "A Subjective View of Landscape Painting" (1904) and "Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists" (1906). The author argues that Greenshields' collection and theoretical views on art as expressed in his writing evolved simultaneously, and as his taste for works by the Hague School was formed his collection assumed a rhetorical function.
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Master's Thesis
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Concordia University
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Montreal
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2008
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ix-154p.
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en
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Buis, Alena. “Ut Pictura Poesis: Edward Black Greenshields’ Collection of Hague School Paintings.” Master’s Thesis, Concordia University, 2008. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/QMG/TC-QMG-976098.pdf.
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