The Art of Thomas Gainsborough by Michael Rosenthal

Also explored are his precocious early works, his subtle approach to the lucrative world of fashionable portraiture, the often pointed social commentary behind his seductive landscapes, and the exploratory nature of the last works. The paintings he chose for display in London's newly emerging exhibition venues are grouped together, providing a valuable insight into how he wanted his career and art to be understood. The astonishing range of works illustrated here fully demonstrates the variety and brilliance of Gainsborough's art. A second essay examines the development of Gainsborough's technique and working methods, from his early works and life in Sudbury, Suffolk, to the grand studio and gallery at Schomberg House, London, where he spent his final years. In their essay, Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone explore his dynamic involvement with the social world of his day, as he endeavored to forge an art that engaged meaningfully with contemporary life. Art of Thomas Gainsborough a little business for the eye New. This book, published to accompany a major international exhibition covering the artist's entire career, reveals the sheer range, quality, and originality of Gainsborough's work from his engagingly naturalistic landscapes and touching images of children to his sophisticated and glamorous society portraits. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the masters of eighteenth-century art. It may also be missing some parts/accessories or bundled items. Highly illustrated, this book offers an account of the artist's rich and varied life, his diverse output and reveals his career and art as characteristic of the problems, dilemmas and situations that affected other painters during a time of rapid commercial and technological development and change. It may be marked, have identifying markings on it, or have minor cosmetic damage. The second part of the book explores the manifestations of Gainsborughs aesthetic in portraiture, landscape painting and paintings of sensibility.

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The Art of Thomas Gainsborough by Michael Rosenthal