Cross-country collaboration
Aug 31, 2022
3 minutes
Huon Mallalieu
OETHE’S claim of 1787 that ‘in no country has this art’—by which he meant watercolour—‘been brought to greater perfection than in Italy’ might come as a shock to believers in the primacy of the English school. At that date, there was probably only one superlative Italian practitioner, Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1754-1821). However, it is arguable that had the great man said instead that nowhere had it been brought to greater perfection ‘than by British and other foreign artists working in Italy’, he would
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