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Exhibition Catalogues: ‘In Search of Rex Whistler’ and ‘The Peculiarity of Algernon Newton’ Event Date(s): 24th Jan 2013 Location: London Reviewed by: David Frazer Lewis Reviewed on: 30th Jan 2013 Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life and Work, Frances Lincoln, 2012. Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Peculiarity of Algernon Newton, Daniel Katz Gallery, 2012. The artists Rex Whistler and Algernon Newton are the subjects of two new publications created to accompany exhibitions that appeared briely in London before Christmas. Both artists were twentieth-century painters who revived eighteenth-century methods of painting. Celebrating what they saw as an age of reason, they turned away from modernity to a romantic conception of an English identity that supposedly predated the problems of industrialization and urbanization. Terry Castle has dubbed this movement Rococophilia. Alan Powers, writing in Apollo, once called it the George VI style, and he is right in observing that this latter Georgian era mirrored some of the characteristics of the irst. But what insight is to be gained for scholars of the eighteenth century by studying the twentieth? We here have presented the work of two men who, although painters and not art historians, de

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