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Gainsborough's family album / David H. Solkin, with Ann Bermingham and Susan Sloman.

"I am sick of Portraits and wish very much to take up my Viol da Gamba and walk off to some sweet village when I can paint Landskips and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease." Despite this famous protestation in a letter to his friend William Jackson, Thomas Gainsborough (1727-8...

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Main Authors: Solkin, David H. (Author, Curator), Bermingham, Ann (Author), Sloman, Susan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : National Portrait Gallery, [2018]
Subjects:
Gainsborough, Thomas, > 1727-1788 > Exhibitions.
Gainsborough, Thomas, > 1727-1788 > Family > Exhibitions.
Gainsborough family > Portraits > Exhibitions.
Portrait painting, British > 18th century > Exhibitions.
Painting, British > 18th century > Exhibitions.
Gainsborough, Thomas, > 1727-1788.
Families.
Bildnismalerei.
Familie.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword
  • Curator's foreword
  • Chronology
  • The Gainsborough family tree
  • Private and public relations : Gainsborough's family album / David H. Solkin
  • Daughters and sisters : Gainsborough's portraits of Mary and Margaret / Ann Bermingham
  • Women of consequence : Mrs Gainsborough and Mrs Gibbon / Susan Sloman
  • The family album. London & Suffolk 1727-1758/9 ; Bath 1759-1774 ; London 1774-1788.

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