Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
02.02.2001
Herausgeber
John HayesVerlag
University PressesSeitenzahl
240
Maße (L/B/H)
23,4/15,6/1,3 cm
Gewicht
358 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-300-22303-3
Once described as 'brilliant but eccentric ... too licentious to be published', Gainsborough's letters delighted his friends and they delight us. This book gathers together all the known letters by the illustrious eighteenth-century British painter and connects them with a narrative of Gainsborough's life that gives the correspondence a biographical coherence. The letters reveal a man who was generous and warm-hearted, devoted to his family and friends, convivial, often dissipated yet modest and God-fearing, usually sensible in his own affairs and always so in the advice he gave to others. We also learn a great deal about Gainsborough's painting: his methods and techniques, his attitude toward portraiture and landscape, his relationships with his patrons, the prices he charged, his concern about how his pictures were hung, and his ambivalence about the value of the Royal Academy exhibitions. Running through the letters, too, is his love of music and his friendship with musicians. The 110 letters, which include correspondence with Gainsborough's friends and relatives, are supplemented by 37 documents in the artist's own hand, chiefly instructions to his bankers and receipts for payments from clients. John Hayes, director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1974 to 1994, has written extensively on the art of Thomas Gainsborough.
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