** 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 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published: 10/30/2018
ISBN: 9781474601061
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d
