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Alastair Laing

Author of In Trust for the Nation

9+ Works 125 Members 3 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the names: Laing Alastair, Alistair Laing

Works by Alastair Laing

In Trust for the Nation (1995) 45 copies

Francois Boucher, 1703-1770 (1986) 36 copies

The Drawings of Francois Boucher (2003) 13 copies

Clerics and connoisseurs : the Reverend Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe family and the fortunes of an Irish art… (2001) 10 copies

The London Oratory: Centenary 1884–1984 (1984) 8 copies

Lighting (1982) 5 copies

Drawings for Architecture Design and Ornament [2-volume set] (2006) 4 copies

The finest drawings from the museums of Angers : a loan exhibition ... Heim Gallery, London, November 23 - December 22,… (1978) 3 copies

Festschrift Kurt Fossacher, Imaginatin und Imago, Two more Baumgartner sketches for the Tagliche Erbauung 1 copy

Associated Works

Early Christian and Byzantine Art (1968) — Translator, some editions — 81 copies

Fingerprints of the artist : European terra-cotta sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections (1981) — Contributor — 8 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Laing, Alastair
Legal name: Laing, Alastair David
Birthdate: 1944
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Scotland
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Education: Oxford University
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Occupations: curator
art historian
Organizations: National Trust
Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français
Heim Gallery

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Francois Boucher, 1703-1770 by Alastair Laing

This book is the catalog for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Museum of Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris in 1986-7.
I was a little disappointed that of the 324 illustrations, only 36 were in color.

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Mapguy314 | Nov 13, 2020 |

The Finest Drawings from the Museums of Angers by National Gallery of Ireland,

IR/C/1/014

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TRIARC | Oct 14, 2010 |

Clerics and Connoisseurs, the Rev. Matthew… by Alastair Laing (ED)

IR/00062

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TRIARC | Aug 12, 2010 |

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J. W. Niemeijer

National Gallery of Ireland

Statistics

Works: 9
Also by: 2
Members: 125
Popularity: #160,151
Rating: ½ 3.4

Reviews: 3
ISBNs: 9

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