Solkin David H.
Solkin David H. - Gainsboroughs Family Album - Hardcover
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Description: Despite this famous protestation in a letter to his friend William Jackson Gainsborough was clearly prepared to make an exception when it came to making portraits of his own family and himself. This book and the major exhibition it accompanies features a dozen portraits of his daughters Mary and Margaret the same number of himself and his wife Margaret (though perhaps tellingly only one of the couple together) as well as works depicting four of his five siblings his handsome nephew Gainsborough Dupont (who became his studio assistant) an aunt and uncle several in - laws and last but not least his beloved dogs Tristram and Fox. Spanning more than four decades Gainsborough's family portraits chart the period from the mid - 1740s when he plied his trade in his native Suffolk through his time in Bath (1758 74 ) when he established hi mself with a rich and fashionable clientele to his most successful latter years at his luxuriously appointed studio in London's We st End. Alongside this story of a provincial 18th - century artist's rise to fame and fortune runs a more private narrative ab out the role of portraiture in the promotion of family values at a time when these were assuming a recogni's ably modern form. In the first of three introductory essays David H. Solkin writes on Gainsborough himself placing his family portraits in the context of earlier practice including that of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens and British portraitists from Mary Beale to Joseph Highmore . Ann Bermingham explores Gainsborough's portraits of his daughters with particular reference to two finished double portraits painted seven years apart and the tragic story arising from them. Susan Sloman discusses Margaret's role as her husband's business manager its effect on the family dynamic and hence the visual representation of its members.
Title: Gainsboroughs Family Album
Author(s): Solkin David H.
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
Barcode: 9781855147904
Pages: 192 Pages, Illustrated In Colour Throughout
Publication Date: 12/18/2018
Category: Portraits In Art
Description: Despite this famous protestation in a letter to his friend William Jackson Gainsborough was clearly prepared to make an exception when it came to making portraits of his own family and himself. This book and the major exhibition it accompanies features a dozen portraits of his daughters Mary and Margaret the same number of himself and his wife Margaret (though perhaps tellingly only one of the couple together) as well as works depicting four of his five siblings his handsome nephew Gainsborough Dupont (who became his studio assistant) an aunt and uncle several in - laws and last but not least his beloved dogs Tristram and Fox. Spanning more than four decades Gainsborough's family portraits chart the period from the mid - 1740s when he plied his trade in his native Suffolk through his time in Bath (1758 74 ) when he established hi mself with a rich and fashionable clientele to his most successful latter years at his luxuriously appointed studio in London's We st End. Alongside this story of a provincial 18th - century artist's rise to fame and fortune runs a more private narrative ab out the role of portraiture in the promotion of family values at a time when these were assuming a recogni's ably modern form. In the first of three introductory essays David H. Solkin writes on Gainsborough himself placing his family portraits in the context of earlier practice including that of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens and British portraitists from Mary Beale to Joseph Highmore . Ann Bermingham explores Gainsborough's portraits of his daughters with particular reference to two finished double portraits painted seven years apart and the tragic story arising from them. Susan Sloman discusses Margaret's role as her husband's business manager its effect on the family dynamic and hence the visual representation of its members.
Title: Gainsboroughs Family Album
Author(s): Solkin David H.
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
Barcode: 9781855147904
Pages: 192 Pages, Illustrated In Colour Throughout
Publication Date: 12/18/2018
Category: Portraits In Art
