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Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson, and Sir Joshua Reynolds

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was a leading English landscape and portrait painter, draftsman, and printmaker who is now considered one of the most important British artists of the eighteenth century. This volume illuminates his life, career, personality, and passions through three diverse character sketches by Philip Thicknesse, an eccentric British adventurer, businessman, and writer; William Jackson, an artist and close friend to Gainsborough; and Sir Joshua Reynolds, an English portrait painter and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. An obituary published shortly after Gainsborough’s death lends insight into the artist’s impact. An introduction by Anthony Mould, a British art dealer and independent scholar, offers an overview of Gainsborough’s life and career.

 

144 pages
4 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches
46 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-664-5
paperback

Getty Publications
Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum
Series: Lives of the Artists

2020

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