Library Journal
"This fine overview is recommended for all collections."
Book Description
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 and how his career reflected problems and situations common among painters in eighteenth-century England.
Publisher comments
Review
'Rosenthal makes Gainsborough's paint 'sometimes licked, sometimes dragged across the surface', sound positively sexy. Rosenthal's, at times, rhapsodic prose if matched by the high quality of colour reproduction and layout we have come to expect from Yale University Press.' - Martin Postle - British Art Journal
'Rosenthal makes Gainsborough's paint 'sometimes licked, sometimes dragged across the surface', sound positively sexy. Rosenthal's, at times, rhapsodic prose if matched by the high quality of colour reproduction and layout we have come to expect from Yale University Press.' - Martin Postle - British Art Journal
About the author
Michael Rosenthal holds a chair in the history of art at the University of Warwick. His other books include Constable: The Painter and His Landscape, published by Yale University Press.
