The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: "A Little Business for the Eye" (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

About this book

In this sumptuously illustrated book Michael Rosenthal provides a lively account of Thomas Gainsboroughs varied life and diverse artworks. Rosenthal examines the artists portraits landscapes and fancy pictures works of extraordinary beauty and complexity. The book also considers for the first time Gainsboroughs entire body of works and how his career reflected problems and situations common among painters in eighteenth-century England.