Gillray was not just one of the greatest satirical cartoonists to have lived, but one of Britain’s greatest artists in any genre. I hope my portrait bust does him sufficient justice, ...

But others should be interested too in James Gillray, and not just because one of England's finest caricaturists of the late 18th century had his studio at 27 St James's Street, ...

Photo: James Gillray/National Portrait Gallery In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte, having seized power in France, appealed to George III for an end to the eight years of war that had followed the French ...

Gillray is, always and probably forever, contemporary. Ray Mark Rinaldi: 303-954-1540, [email protected] or @rayrinaldi “UNDER THE GUILLOTINE: JAMES GILLRAY AND CONTEMPORARY COUNTERPARTS ...

Take Gillray’s 1795 caricature of Joseph Banks, president of the UK Royal Society, as a butterfly wrapped in red with a medal on his chest.

James Gillray, the caricaturist, was the son of one James Gillray, who, after serving as a private soldier under the Duke of Cumberland in Flanders and losing an arm at Fontenoy, became first an ...

James Gillray was a British Old Masters artist who was born in 1757. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Chris Beetles Gallery have featured James Gillray's work in the past. James Gillray's ...

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Gillray never lost sight of the greater and lesser evils: though the Britain of his day was corrupt, ridden with snobbery and other vices that he had no hesitation in exposing and lampooning, he did ...

Gillray, even at his most outrageous, often leaves you in doubt over how much he admires and how much he detests his targets. “Each man,” Wilde wrote, “kills the thing he loves.” ...

“Little Boney,” as Gillray called his creation, was markedly smaller than everyone else in the cartoons, which firmly established the myth of Bonaparte as short man with a huge ego. In reality ...

T im Clayton’s book is a magisterial study of a great popular artist: a full-scale interpretation of James Gillray’s output of satirical prints, and a biography that warrants comparison with the best ...