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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solkin, David H., author, curator., curator.

Bermingham, Ann, author.

Sloman, Susan, author.

Contributor:

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, artist, artist.

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Princeton University. Art Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788--Exhibitions.

Gainsborough, Thomas.

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788--Family--Exhibitions.

Gainsborough family--Portraits--Exhibitions.

Gainsborough family.

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.

Families.

Local Subjects:

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

190 pages : color illustrations, color portraits, genealogical table ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London : National Portrait Gallery, [2018]

Summary:

"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 (1727-88) was clearly prepared to make an exception when it came to making portraits of his own family and himself. This book features over 50 portraits of himself, his wife, his daughters, other close relatives and 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, to his most successful latter years at his luxuriously appointed studio in London's West End. Alongside this story of a provincial 18th-century artist's rise to fame and fortune runs a more private narrative, about the role of portraiture in the promotion of family values, at a time when these were assuming a recognizably modern form.

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

The family album. London & Suffolk 1727-1758/9 ; Bath 1759-1774 ; London 1774-1788.

Notes:

Published to accompany the exhibition Gainsborough's family album, held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 22 November 2018 to 3 February 2019, and Princeton University Art Museum, 23 February to 9 June 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (page 186) and index.

ISBN:

9781855147904

1855147904

OCLC:

1048332469