# Gainsborough

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- Book: [Gainsborough](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-t-hamilton/gainsborough) ([Gainsborough.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-t-hamilton/gainsborough.md))
- Authors: [James T. Hamilton](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-t-hamilton)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7460-053-8
- Published: 2017-08-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer ** 'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends. He was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a shockingly loose, libidinous manner and a volatility that could lead him to slash his paintings. James Hamilton reveals the artist in his many contexts: the talented Suffolk lad, transported to the heights of fashion; the rake-on-the-make in London, learning his craft in the shadow of Hogarth; the society-portrait painter in Bath and London who earned huge sums by charming the right people into his studio. With fresh insights into original sources, Gainsborough: A Portrait transforms our understanding of this fascinating man, and enlightens the century that bore him.