Gainsborough
A Portrait
Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers, Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, History, British
| Author: | James Hamilton | ISBN: | 9781474600538 |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Group | Publication: | August 10, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Hamilton |
| ISBN: | 9781474600538 |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Group |
| Publication: | August 10, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Language: | English |
** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **
'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times
**'B**rings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends. He was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a shockingly loose, libidinous manner and a volatility that could lead him to slash his paintings.
James Hamilton reveals the artist in his many contexts: the talented Suffolk lad, transported to the heights of fashion; the rake-on-the-make in London, learning his craft in the shadow of Hogarth; the society-portrait painter in Bath and London who earned huge sums by charming the right people into his studio. With fresh insights into original sources, Gainsborough: A Portrait transforms our understanding of this fascinating man, and enlightens the century that bore him.
** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **
'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times
**'B**rings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends. He was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a shockingly loose, libidinous manner and a volatility that could lead him to slash his paintings.
James Hamilton reveals the artist in his many contexts: the talented Suffolk lad, transported to the heights of fashion; the rake-on-the-make in London, learning his craft in the shadow of Hogarth; the society-portrait painter in Bath and London who earned huge sums by charming the right people into his studio. With fresh insights into original sources, Gainsborough: A Portrait transforms our understanding of this fascinating man, and enlightens the century that bore him.
