Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

By:

George Williams Fulcher

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

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Born in Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1727, Thomas Gainsborough was perhaps the best-known portrait painter of the eighteenth century. This 1856 work by George Williams Fulcher (1795–1855), bookseller and poet, also of Sudbury, was seen through the press by his son after his sudden death, and was, surprisingly, the first biography of the painter. Educated at the local grammar school, Gainsborough moved to London in about 1740, and received some artistic training there, but returned, a married man, to Sudbury in 1749, and thereafter moved to Ipswich and then Bath as he became more fashionable as a portraitist. He ended his career in London, dying in August 1788. Fulcher's work is anecdotal and engaging, and is concerned as much with Gainsborough's life as with his works. He also provides a list of Gainsborough's works, and reproduces the lecture on Gainsborough given by Joshua Reynolds to the Royal Academy students soon after his death.

Release date NZ

August 3rd, 2017

Author

George Williams Fulcher

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Edmund Syer Fulcher

Illustrations

3 Plates, black and white; 1 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

260

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

Dimensions

140x217x15

ISBN-13

9781108079051

Product ID

26868284

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