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 London's
first creative quarter was in the City but by the 18th century
artists were moving away towards the fashionable West End and
the newly built Covent Garden Piazza and Leicester Square. These
grand locations were home to aristocratic patrons and brought
the artists respectability and social recognition, which helped
to distinguish the artists from the artisans, and brought the
profession a new dignity. Artists socialised together, collaborated
on projects and practiced in their own private academies, thus
expanding the audience and demand for art.
Learn more at the lecture
Artists and Entrepreneurs
in Covent Garden: The rise of the art world
Further information
about Covent Garden is available through these links:
Norton
Topics Online: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)
William
Hogarth
Joshua
Reynolds
The
Foundling Museum
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