Research Catalog

Title

Gainsborough's family album / David H. Solkin, with Ann Bermingham and Susan Sloman.

Author

Solkin, David H.

Publication

• London : National Portrait Gallery, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bermingham, Ann
• Sloman, Susan
• Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788
• National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution.
• Princeton University. Art Museum, host institution.

Description

190 pages : color illustrations, color portraits, genealogical table; 29 cm

Summary

"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.

Subjects

• Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788 > Family > Exhibitions
• Families
• Exhibition catalogs
• Gainsborough family > Portraits > Exhibitions
• Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published to accompany the exhibition Gainsborough's family album: National Portrait Gallery, London, 22 November 2018 to 3 February 2019, and Princeton University Art Museum, 23 February to 9 June 2019"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-186) and index.

Contents

Director's foreword -- Curator's foreword -- Chronology -- The Gainsborough family tree -- Private and public relations : Gainsborough's family album / David H. Solkin -- Daughters and sisters : Gainsborough's portraits of Mary and Margaret / Ann Bermingham -- Women of consequence : Mrs Gainsborough and Mrs Gibbon / Susan Sloman -- The family album. London & Suffolk 1727-1758/9 ; Bath 1759-1774 ; London 1774-1788.

Call Number

JQF 19-455

ISBN

• 9781855147904
• 1855147904

LCCN

2017393883

OCLC

1048332469

Author

Solkin, David H., author, curator. Author. Curator

Title

Gainsborough's family album / David H. Solkin, with Ann Bermingham and Susan Sloman.

Publisher

London : National Portrait Gallery, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-186) and index.

Added Author

Bermingham, Ann, author. Author

Sloman, Susan, author. Author

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, artist. Artist

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution.

Princeton University. Art Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 19-455