Cox has done an admirable job of marshalling his material...The book is well populated with the voices of its protagonists and their critics, lending it a rich anecdotal texture and allowing the great egos of Tite Street to speak for themselves.
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This street became centre of London's fin-de-siécle art scene, which the historian Devon Cox has made the basis of an engrossing, detailed and somewhat melancholy group biography.
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...beautifully illustrated with paintings by Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and others from their Tite Street circle, and covers the idol worship, arrogance, incestuousness and innovation emerging from this slice of city.
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Cox paints an ingenious group portrait of the artists, writers, critics, architects and luvvies who pursued the muse to Chelsea. The new houses being built to residents’ specifications in Tite Street weren’t just homes or studios but, Cox argues, an expression of aesthetic ideologies . . . in bricks and mortar.
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This exceptionally handsome and well-illustrated book - a biography of the street, its residents and their connections - elucidates some of those possibilities. And pretty wonderful they are too.
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- COUNTRY LIFE
HRH Princess of Wales (1994) by Nelson Shanks
Painted at 33 Tite Street
A well-informed, nicely produced and generously illustrated book about Tite Street in merrier, cheaper times, when it could claim to be the epicentre of art in England.
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This is a well-researched, and eminently readable biography of one street in London, whose occupants make up a dramatis personae of outstanding talent over a period of 120 years... The result, with a red ribbon tastefully tied around it, would make a lovely box of chocolates.
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- THE LADY
