To read Susan Sloman’s blog post for Yale University Press introducing the book, please click here The full range of Gainsborough’s art, from fashionable portraits to landscapes and fancy pictures, is addressed in this major contribution, ‘an enduring contribution not only to Gainsborough scholarship but also to the study of British art of the eighteenth century’ (Duncan Robinson, The Burlington Magazine). His fractious relationship with the Royal Academy and its exhibition culture is reexamined through the works he sent to its annual shows. New material about Gainsborough’s technique is based on examinations of his pictures and firsthand accounts by studio visitors. This is a ‘scrupulously detailed’ (Hugh Belsey), 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. They coincided with the establishment of the Royal Academy, of which Gainsborough was a founding member, and the city’s ascendance as a centre for the arts.
Thomas Gainsborough’s (1727–88) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle and conclusion of his career.
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