Six lectures on some nineteenth century artists, English and French, delivered at the Art institute of Chicago, being the Scammon lectures for the year 1907
A set of six lectures by William Angus Knight, delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907 and published there in 1909 as the Scammon lectures, surveying nineteenth-century English and French painters. The four plates shown are photogravure reproductions of paintings: a dark half-length portrait of a woman with loosened hair, a head-and-shoulders portrait of a bearded man in profile, a woman leaning on a sill beside roses, and a rotated plate of a night scene with a rowing or bridge subject. A designer could take the moody tonal range, soft-focus shadows, and Pre-Raphaelite-era figure poses as reference for dark, atmospheric portraiture.
