The English Virtuoso

List of Illustrations                                
Acknowledgments   

Note to the Reader

Introduction

1   Art as “a Grace to Health”:
Physic and Connoisseurship at the Early Stuart Court    

2   From the “Applying of Colors” to “the Politer Parts of Learning”:
Art and the Virtuosi after the Restoration   

3   “The Extream Delight” Taken “in Pictures”:
Physicians, Quackery, and Art Writing   

4   “Assuming Empirick” and “Arrant Quack”:
Antiquarianism and the Empirical Legacy of Don Quixote    

5   “Inspiring Reciprocal Emulation and Esteem”:
Dr. Richard Mead and Early Georgian Virtuosity    

Conclusion

Notes             Selected Bibliography                 Index