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The Art of Thomas Gainsborough : "A Little Business for the Eye" (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
The Art of Thomas Gainsborough A Little Business for the Eye - Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis Author:Michael Rosenthal In this sumptuously illustrated book, Michael Rosenthal provides a lively account of Thomas Gainsborough's varied life and diverse artworks. Rosenthal examines the artist's portraits, landscapes, and fancy pictures, works of extraordinary beauty and complexity. The book also considers for the first time Gainsborough's entire body of works an... more »d how his career reflected problems and situations common among painters in eighteenth-century England.« less