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The Rose and Crown Club was a club for artists, collectors and connoisseurs of art in early 18th-century London, England. ==History== The Rose and Crown Club "for Eminent Artificers of this Nation"〔Turner, Jane, (ed.), ''The Dictionary of Art'' (Oxford University Press, 1996, vol. 19), p. 584; Appleby, John H., 'A new perspective on John Rowley, Virtuoso Master of mechanics and hydraulic engineer' in ''Annals of Science'', vol. 53, (1 January 1996), pp. 1-27〕 was formed by 1704, when the engraver George Vertue was admitted;〔Whitley, William T.. ''Artists and Their Friends in England, 1700-1799'', (The Medici Society, 1928) vol. I p 7.〕 while it lasted, the club was among the more important of clubs for artists and connoisseurs.〔Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert, ''John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter'' (1995), p. 43〕 The club was initially "a bawdy assembly of younger artists and cognoscenti, which met weekly"〔Turner, Jane, & Jane Shoaf Turner, ''Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914'' (Macmillan Reference, in Grove Library of World Art, 2000) p. 470〕 and apparently held its meetings at the Rose and Crown public house.〔Walpole Society (Great Britain), ''Volume Six of the Walpole Society'' (1918), p. 57〕 in addition to Vertue, members included Bernard Lens III, Christian Friedrich Zincke, William Hogarth,〔Coombs, Katherine, 'Lens () family (per. c. 1650–1779), artists' in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)〕 Peter Tillemans,〔Bottoms, Edward, 'Tillemans, Peter (c.1684–1734), painter and draughtsman' in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''〕 Marcellus Laroon the Younger and Michael Dahl. The members of the club were known as the 'Rosacoronians'. An unfinished Hogarthian〔Long attributed to Hogarth, on the basis of an attached note said to be by Alderman John Boydell, to whom it once belonged, and whose note called it an "early painting by Hogarth" (Whitley 1928: I, p. 70f)〕 painting in the Ashmolean Museum attributed to the Scottish painter Gawen Hamilton (another member), ''An Assembly of Virtuosi'', shows a group of fifteen men, including eight who are identified in an etching of the painting by R. Cooper, published by W. B. Tiffin (1829),〔Whitley 1928 I, pp 70f, which notes that, in the description of the painting published in the ''Literary Gazette'' (1827), the tablet in the room is said to bear names "of whom we can make out the following:— Hamilton, Dahl, Laroon, Gibbon or Gibson, Rysbrach, Vanderbank, Bridgman and Kent." The celebrated carver Grinling Gibbons died in 1721.〕 and it has been suggested that this is a group portrait of the Rosacoronians. The group includes Hamilton himself, Michael Dahl, John Vanderbank, the architect William Kent, and John Michael Rysbrack the sculptor.〔Harrison, Colin, ''et al.'', ''Ashmolean Museum: Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings'' (Ashmolean Museum, 2004, ISBN 1-85444-188-4), p. 97; Gawen Hamilton also painted a ''Club of Artists'' that gathered at the King's Arms in New Bond Street and included some of the same men: Hamilton, Vertue, Dahl, Rysbrack and Kent among the others. (Whitley p. 68)〕 Vertue listed the painter and engraver Gerhard Bockman as a member in 1724.〔Grindle, Nicholas, 'Bockman, Gerhard (1686–1773), portrait painter and engraver' in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''〕 The club was well connected with the older-established Virtuosi of St Luke (''c.'' 1689–1743), with which it is sometimes confused, although it was less prestigious.〔 The Rose and Crown Club remained in existence until 1745 and held its last meeting at the Half-Moon Tavern.〔Whitley 1928, vol. 1, p. 70.〕 Bignamini notes in his ''George Vertue'' that 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rose and Crown Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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