Thomas Gainsborough: Portrait of Mrs. Lowndes-Stone circa 1775

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the masters of 18th-century art. This stunning book, published to accompany a major international exhibition, covering the artist's entire career, reveals the sheer range, quality, and originality of Gainsborough's work, from his engagingly naturalistic landscapes and touching images of children to his sophisticated and ...more

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 ...more

This handsome gift volume reveals the stories behind the Huntington's best-known paintings, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough and Pinkie by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Purchased by Henry E. Huntington in the 1920s, the two masterpieces have resided together in the railroad magnate's mansion-turned-art gallery in San Marino, California, for more ...more

Major exhibitions in London, Washington, and Boston in 2003 will focus attention on and boost public interest in Gainsborough, one of England's greatest eighteenth-century painters. This unique collection presents 16 of his most famous works--including the enormously popular "The Blue Boy"--as stickers. Ideal for dozens of decorative uses. Dover Original. ...more

William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial commercialism. He also discusses thoroughly Gainsborough's life and work - his childhood in Suffolk; his 'apprenticeship' in London; his marriage ...more

This is the first introduction to the art and life of Thomas Gainsborough to appear for many years. Gainsborough has long been an attractive and popular figure in the history of English art, but this book shows that he was more than the well-known painter of The Blue Boy and ...more

This lovely collection includes 24 reproductions in miniature of Gainsborough's finest works, among them Lady Innes (ca. 1758-09), The Harvest Wagon (1767), and his famous The Blue Boy (ca. 1770). Ideal for sending brief messages to art-loving friends, these cards can also be framed or simply added to a personal ...more

The eighteenth century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of classical or theatrical pastoral, landscape painters attempted to offer a portrayal of what life was really like, or was thought to be like, in contemporary England; and ...more