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When Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) arrived in the spa town of Bath, England, at the age of thirty-one, he was an artist of modest reputation. When he left sixteen years later, he was recognized as one of Europe's foremost painters. In this exceptional book, Susan Sloman examines for the first time how this transformation took place. She offers an entirely new view of Gainsborough's development during his middle years as well as abundant new information about Bath and its role, for a few decades in the eighteenth century, as a cultural center of Europe.

Drawing on freshly discovered documents and a variety of little-known contemporary published sources, Sloman illuminates artistic activity in Bath and Gainsborough's part in it. She reveals how Gainsborough's prominence as an artist and Bath's as a cultural hub were intimately connected during a period in which the artist and his town flourished together. ... Read more

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PREFACE
AN art critic has said that no great painting can be
described, and that it is not in the province of
words to give an idea of colour. This, in a certain measure,
is true, but since works of the highest art-whether a
building such as the Parthenon, or the Taj Mahal, or the
Alhambra, or statues like the Venus of Milo and the
Olympian Hermes-may be brought before the mental
vision by words, why also may not such consummate
creations of the brush as Raffaele's School of Athens, or
Leonardo's Last Supper, or Michael Angelo's frescoes on
the ceiling of the Sistine Chape~ ?
On a lower level words do not entirely fail to convey
the impression of a fine portrait or a landscape painting,
although the most elementary photographic reproductIon
of such portrait or landscape will give a better idea than
pages written by a Ruskin or a Fromentin.
With the help of the illustrations, which are numerous,
I hope this little book will make Gainsborough's art
more familiar to

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX; I INTRODUCTORY I; II SUDBURY 10; 111 IpSWICH 23; IV BATH 37; v LONDON 69; VI TH~ ILLUSTRATIONS 108; INDEX 129

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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