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• catalog abstract ""Once described as 'brilliant but eccentric ... too licentious to be published, ' Gainsborough's letters delighted his friends and they delight us. This book gathers together all the known letters by the illustrious eighteenth-century British painter and connects them with a narrative of Gainsborough's life that gives the correspondence a biographical coherence." "The letters reveal a man who was generous and warm-hearted, devoted to his family and friends, convivial, often dissipated yet modest and God-fearing, usually sensible in his own affairs and always so in the advice he gave to others. We also learn a great deal about Gainsborough's painting: his methods and techniques, his attitude toward portraiture and landscape, his relationships with his patrons, the prices he charged, his concern about how his pictures were hung, and his ambivalence about the value of the Royal Academy exhibitions. Running through the letters, too, is his love of music and his friendship with musicians." "The 110 letters, which include correspondence with Gainsborough's friends and relative, are supplemented by 37 documents in the artist's own hand, chiefly instructions to his bankers and receipts for payments from clients. Illustrations are included of all the people to whom Gainsborough wrote whose portraits exist and of friends and works of art described in the letters."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Correspondence. 2001".
• catalog contributor b12069016.
• catalog contributor b12069017.
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description ""Once described as 'brilliant but eccentric ... too licentious to be published, ' Gainsborough's letters delighted his friends and they delight us. This book gathers together all the known letters by the illustrious eighteenth-century British painter and connects them with a narrative of Gainsborough's life that gives the correspondence a biographical coherence." "The letters reveal a man who was generous and warm-hearted, devoted to his family and friends, convivial, often dissipated yet modest and God-fearing, usually sensible in his own affairs and always so in the advice he gave to others. We also learn a great deal about Gainsborough's painting: his methods and techniques, his attitude toward portraiture and landscape, his relationships with his patrons, the prices he charged, his concern about how his pictures were hung, and his ambivalence about the value of the Royal Academy exhibitions. Running through the letters, too, is his love of music and his friendship with musicians." "The 110 letters, which include correspondence with Gainsborough's friends and relative, are supplemented by 37 documents in the artist's own hand, chiefly instructions to his bankers and receipts for payments from clients. Illustrations are included of all the people to whom Gainsborough wrote whose portraits exist and of friends and works of art described in the letters."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xxx, 209 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0300087322 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "[New Haven, Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press,".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog subject "Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "ND497.G2 A3 2001".
• catalog subject "Painters England Correspondence.".
• catalog title "Correspondence. 2001".
• catalog title "The letters of Thomas Gainsborough / edited by John Hayes.".
• catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
• catalog type "text".