Author: Michael Rosenthal
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780300081374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The book begins by charting the geography and professional tactics of a career that took Gainsbourgh from London to Suffolk, Bath and eventually back to London. Rosenthal looks at such wide-ranging topics as how artists manipulated the press, the issue of likeness in portraiture, how rivalries between painters were handled in public and private, and the pressures of the public exhibition. The second part of the book explores the manifestations of Gainsborugh's aesthetic in portraiture, landscape painting and paintings of sensibility. Rosenthal concludes with a discussion of the problem of defining a role and proper form for the fine arts at a time of rapid social change and innovation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin Postle
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thomas Gainsborough is the most perennially popular of British artists, admired for the grandeur of his society portraits and his sumptuous pastoral landscapes. In his life and art he wished to project an image of effortless accomplishment, demonstrated by a dazzling painting techniques and immense personal charm. He was also competitive, opinionated and possessed of a finely tuned business brain.