Gainsborough's family album

Resource Information

The work Gainsborough's family album represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Westminster Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Gainsborough's family album

Statement of responsibility

David H. Solkin with Ann Bermingham and Susan Sloman

Contributor

• Solkin, David H.
• National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
• Princeton University, Art Museum
• Bermingham, Ann
• Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788
• Sloman, Susan

Author

• Solkin, David H.
• Bermingham, Ann
• Sloman, Susan

Host institution

• Princeton University, Art Museum
• National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Subject

• Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788 -- Exhibitions
• Art and Design
• Portrait painting -- Exhibitions

Genre

• Exhibitions

Language

eng

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 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

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 759.2
• A 752.09 GAINSBOROUGH (F)
• 759.2
• 759.2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ND497

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

specialized