Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.
Author: George Williams Fulcher
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 266
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Early Gainsborough
Author: Mark Bills
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780946511648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGainsborough's Cottage Doors
Author: Hugh Belsey
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781907372506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the significance of the multiple versions of designs for 'The Cottage Door', by Thomas Gainsborough.
Gainsborough's Vision
Author: Amal Asfour
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780853238744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Gainsborough, one of the most popular British painters, has been celebrated as a landscapist, a portrait painter, and a man of feeling whose impetuous character is revealed in his art, life and letters. This book reveals that the style, themes and ideas of Gainsborough’s paintings constitute purposeful expressions of an intellectual and visual culture whose importance in the development of eighteenth-century British art has gone unrecognized. "Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson have set out to make us look more knowledgeably at the paintings of Gainsborough... their treatment is richly informative."—George Steiner, The Observer "Asfour and Williamson display a profound knowledge of 18th-century aesthetics... a highly stimulating book."—The British Art Journal
Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective Made Easy
Author: John Joshua Kirby
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Published: 1768
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Author: James Hamilton
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2017-08-10
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1474600530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK** 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 'Brings 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.
Gainsborough in London
Author: Susan Sloman
Publisher: Modern Art Press, Limited
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780956800787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Gainsborough's (1727-88) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle and conclusion of his career. They coincided with the establishment of the Royal Academy, of which Gainsborough was a founding member, and the city's ascendance as a center for the arts. This is a meticulously researched and readable account of how Gainsborough designed his home and studio and maintained a growing schedule of influential patrons, making a place for himself in the art world of late-18th-century London. New material about Gainsborough's technique is based on examinations of his pictures and firsthand accounts by studio visitors. His fractious relationship with the Royal Academy and its exhibition culture is reexamined through the works he sent to its annual shows. The full range of Gainsborough's art, from fashionable portraits to landscapes and fancy pictures, is addressed in this major contribution, not just to the study of a great artist, but to 18th-century studies in general.
Romanticism and Illustration
Author: Ian Haywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1108425712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.
Late Constable Hb
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Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781912520725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn John Constable as a proto-abstractionist of pastoral landscape One of Britain's greatest landscape painters, John Constable was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. His "six-footers," such as The Hay Wainand The Leaping Horse, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand out in the Academy's Annual Exhibition. Despite this, he sold few paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late in his career. With texts by leading authorities on the artist, this handsome book looks at the freedom of Constable's late works and records his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition. John Constable(1776-1837) is one of Britain's best-known artists, and is often considered one of the greatest landscape painters of all time. He was born near the River Stour in Suffolk, an area the artist depicted so frequently that it is referred to as "Constable country." Pastoral scenes were unfashionable at the time and Constable struggled to establish himself as a painter. He was finally elected a Royal Academician in 1829, and in 1832, he exhibited The Opening of Waterloo Bridge--an effort 13 years in the making--at the Summer Exhibition.
