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To publish outstanding original research on British art (interpreted in the widest sense), adopting all approaches to the discipline, and with a particular view to seeing British art in a wider international context. To encourage and support the work of younger scholars.
Main articles are usually 3,000 – 7,500 words, but it is a policy of the journal to consider longer articles up to 20,000 words; shorter articles up to 3,000 words.
Research articles will be refereed.
Not less than 88pp editorial plus advertising, art gloss paper 130 gsm in black and white and colour; cover 300 gsm two-colour laminated gloss; perfect bound.
The British Art Journal is published three times a year. It was founded in Autumn 1999, with two issues in the first volume, but there have been three in each volume since then. The volumes appear annually, although in practice the issues may run over into a following calendar year, which does not affect the subscription entitlement of three issues per subscription.
Editor: Robin Simon
Art Director: David N Hodgson
Associate Editor (Reviews): Simon Poë
Associate Editor (Books): Martin Hopkinson
Consultant Editor (USA): John Wilson
Advertising: David N Hodgson
Cover Cockerel, 2003. by Paul Rudall. Charcoal on paper. Private collection, London
See ‘Paul Rudall (1921–2012) and Modern British art in the mid-20th century’ on pp44–53
This months featured article is Harold Acton Part II, A child at La Pietra by David Platzer on pp 74-82
EDITORIAL
2 | The Berger Prize: Long list
RESEARCH
3 | Anne Casement
The life and work of the Victorian society painter James Godsell Middleton (1805/?2–1874)
16 | Emily Learmont
Una and the Lion by William Bell Scott (1811–90)
Poetry and patriotism
26 | John Lucey
Confusion and correction
The life and works of JS Alpenny né Halfpenny (1786–1858)
34 | Patricia R Andrew
‘A coarse kind of man, but ready in practise, – too ready’
John Rathbone (c1750-1807), the ‘Manchester Wilson’, and his circle
44 | Paula J Rudall
A Corsham flavour
Paul Rudall (1921–2012) and Modern British art in the mid-20th century
54 | Amandine Victoria Didouan
Déjà-vu at Welbeck and Wimpole
Rediscovering an Englishman’s 17th-century manège horses and grooms
65 | Lyrica Taylor
Climbing the Royal Academy ladder
The portraits of artists by JF Rigaud (1742–1810) as ‘a mark of friendship
74 | David Platzer
Harold Acton Part II
A child at La Pietra
BOOK REVIEWS
83 | Thomas Tuohy
Adriano Aymonino
Enlightened Eclecticism. The Grand Designs of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
EDITOR’S CHOICE
92 | Jeremy Bell William Hogarth’s Copycats
92 | David Stacey Art and Industry: Seven Artists in search of an Industrial Revolution in Britain
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
93 | Nicola Moorby
‘Walter Sickert’
Tate Britain 28 April–18 September 2022