Gainsborough : A Portrait

Gainsborough : A PortraitAuthor: Hamilton, James Individual artists Published on 9 August 2018 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 480 pages 193 x 131 x 27 352g ** 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 lived as if

enlightening and dazzlingly original

every book in art is part of an intriguing

His life has been full of drama

trailblazers including Käthe Kollwitz

after thirty-three years of marriage

it's a personal history of writing when the stakes are high and the intimidation is violent

written with no fear

An acclaimed biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English writersGeoffrey Chaucer is often called the father of English literature

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