Adam Buck: artist in the age of Jane Austen
The work of Adam Buck, Regency portrait and miniature painter, provides a fascinating insight into the faces and fashions of this time. Buck’s portraits of The Royals, landowners, Serving Officers and society hostesses, dressed in white muslin, seated or standing in fashionable interiors, brings the world of Jane Austen vividly to life. Jane Austen enthusiasts know Adam Buck’s work better than most.
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First Steps (1808), Adam Buck © Private collection
Alicia Lambart (1803), Adam Buck © Private collection
Mary Anne Clarke on a couch (1809), Adam Buck © Private collection
Farewell (1801), Adam Buck © Private collection
Lady Cowper and son (1807), Adam Buck © Private collection
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