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"I am sick of Portraits and wish very much to take up my Viol da Gamba and walk off to some sweet village when I can paint Landskips and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease." Despite this famous protestation in a letter to his friend William Jackson, Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) was clearly prepared to make an exception when it came to making portraits of his own family and himself. This book features over 50 portraits of himself, his wife, his daughters, other close relatives and his beloved dogs, Tristram and Fox. Spanning more than four decades, Gainsborough's family portraits chart the period from the mid-1740s, when he plied his trade in his native Suffolk, to his most successful latter years at his luxuriously appointed studio in London's West End. Alongside this story of a provincial 18th-century artist's rise to fame and fortune runs a more private narrative, about the role of portraiture in the promotion of family values, at a time when these were assuming a recognizably modern form.

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Fécondé à l'origine par l'influence de Flamands comme Van Dyck ou d'Italiens comme Canaletto, l'art du paysage en Angleterre s'affirme dès le XVIIIe siècle avec Gainsborough, Alexander Cozens ou Stubbs, pour trouver son plein épanouissement avec Turner, Constable et Whistler, avant d'aboutir aux créations irréelles de paul Nash ou de Graham Sutherland. Des visions idéalisées aux scènes de chasse, des aquarelles romantiques aux peintures de marine, des préraphaélites aux postimpressionnistes, ce ouvrage très complet braque le projecteur sur plus de cent vingt chefs-d'oeuvre.

Landscape painting, English. --- Country life in art --- Peinture de paysages anglaise --- Vie rurale dans l'art --- Peinture de paysages britannique --- Paysage --- Landscape --- History --- Paints --- England --- Europe --- Landscapes in art. --- Landscape painting. --- Peinture de paysage --- Peinture --- Dans l'art. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Arts plastiques --- GAINSBOROUGH Thomas (1727 - 1788) --- TURNER William J. M. (1775-1851) --- Angleterre --- Grande-Bretagne --- Jardin --- CANALETTO Antonio (1697-1768)