Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting's subsequent versions created by the same artist who painted the first version. Autograph replicas were considered originals, not copies, and were highly valued by collectors in Britain, America, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Motivated by complex combinations of aesthetic and commercial interests, replicas generated a global, and especially transatlantic, market between the 1870s and the 1940s, and almost all collected replicas were eventually donated to US public museums, giving replicas authority in matters of public taste and museums' modern cultural roles. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, and economic history.

Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University, and affiliate faculty in the Asian Research Center, and Film and Media Studies.

I. Introduction 1. Artists' Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Copyright, and Economics - Julie F. Codell II Autograph Replicas: Location as Meaning 2. The American Replica: The Politics and Status of the Artist's Autograph Replica in the Gilded Age - Jo Briggs 3. "Mere dead copies"? Frank Holl's Newgate and the Lives of Painted Replicas - Andrea Korda III. A Case Study: Albert Moore 4. Albert Moore: Themes and Variations - Richard Green 5. Repetition, Aestheticism, and Copyright Law in the Art Practice of Albert Moore - Robyn Asleson IV. Replicas and Artists' Agency 6. Patrons' Desire: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Prolific Replicas - Julie F. Codell 7. Ford Madox Brown, Cultural Experience, and the Promise of the Replica - Colin Trodd 8. William Powell Frith's Double Life: An Artist Coping with a Changing Market - Sally Woodcock V. Multiple Motivations 9. The Uncertain Status of William Holman Hunt's Oil Replicas - Judith Bronkhurst 10. G. F. Watts's Other Hope (1891): Anatomy of a Version - Barbara Bryant 11. Dadd's Doubles - Nicholas Tromans 12. "Splendid Architectural Paintings": The Replicas of David Roberts - Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz with Briony Llewellyn VI. Creativity, Reputation, and the Market 13. From Replica to Original: Abraham Solomon and the Market for Modern-Life Subjects - Pamela Fletcher 14. Is He Repeating Himself? Creative, Aesthetic, and Commercial Dialogue in the Replicas of John Frederick Lewis - Briony Llewellyn 15. Celebrated Variations on a Theme: The Replicas of Edward Coley Burne-Jones - Fiona Mann 16. Elizabeth Thompson Butler: A Gendered Story of Replication? - Dorothy Nott 17. Creating and Meeting Demand: James Tissot's London Replicas - Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz