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Item Details
| Title:
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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH
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| By: |
Martin Postle |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
185437415X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781854374158 |
| Publisher: |
TATE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 2002 |
| Series: |
British Artists Series |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Description: |
This volume reassesses Thomas Gainsborough's attitudes towards the central aspects of his art: landscape and portraiture. It further examines the impact upon his career of the Royal Academy and the Court of St James's. |
| Synopsis: |
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. This book traces Gainsborough's career from boyhood to the pinnacle of commercial success at the court of George III. Martin postle reassesses the artist's attitudes towards the central aspect of his art - landscape and portraiture. This title forms part of Tate Publishing's "British Artists" series. |
| Illustrations: |
colour and b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Tate Publishing |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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