Thomas Gainsborough: A Country Life

by Thomas Gainsborough and Hugh Belsey

This new study on Thomas Gainsborough concentrates on the early life and works of the great eighteenth-century artist. Gainsborough's talent was evident at a young age, and before he established... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3791327844
• ISBN13: 9783791327846
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Prestel Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Belsey Offers a Compelling Portrait of Early Gainsborough

This is an engaging book focusing on the earlier landscape paintings and portraits completed in Ipswich and Bath. The observations on the details of the paintings are acute and perceptive. The author illuminates with a thorough knowledge of the social mores and conventions of 18th Century England. For painters and artists, the insights on formal composition and color are instructive. The narrative text is laced with a wit, humor, and irony that perhaps one can only find in an English art historian writing about a consummate English artist. The book is also mercifully focused and short, alleviating some of the bludgeon like tediousness of many art history tomes.

Thomas Gainsborough: A Country Life by Hugh Belsey

Mr Belsey has truimphed with this book - it is packed with detail that is conveyed in an accessible style of writing that enables the reader to absorb information whilst, at the same time, enjoying the whole experience.