The clique (artists' association)
The Clique (English: The Clique ) was a group of painters that Richard Dadd (1817–1886) founded in 1838. His friends and colleagues, such as Augustus Egg (1816–1863), Alfred Elmore (1815–1881), William Powell Frith (1819–1909), Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817–1880), John Phillip (1817–1867) and Edward Matthew Ward (1816–1879) also joined this association.
"The first group of British artists to combine for greater strength and to announce that the great backward-looking tradition of the Academy was not relevant to the requirements of contemporary art"
This circle around Richard Dadd sought academic painting and also saw William Hogarth (1697–1764) and David Wilkie (1785–1841) as models. When the Pre-Raphaelites met around 1850 and indicated a new direction in painting, they rejected it as "... eccentric and primitive". Since this group was very much oriented towards its founder, Richard Dadd, it was already considered obsolete in 1842 and was dissolved.
In the second half of the 19th century, a like-minded association soon formed, the St. John's Wood Clique .
literature
- Mary Cowling: Victorian figurative painting. Domestic life and the contemporary social scene . Papadakis Publ., London 2001, ISBN 1-901092-29-1 .
- David Greysmith: Richard Dadd. The Rock and the Castle of Seclusion . Studio Vista, London 1973, ISBN 0-289-70-299-2 , p. 76.
- J. Imray: A reminiscence of sixty years ago . In: The arts journal , 1898, p. 202.
- Paul Stirton: The Clique . In: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
- Helen Valentine (Ed.): Art in the age of Queen Victoria. Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts permanent collection . RAA, London 1999, ISBN 0-300-07997-4
