Gainsborough : A PortraitAuthor: Hamilton, James Individual artists Published on 9 August 2018 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 480 pages 193 x 131 x 27 352g ** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough lived as if

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Ravilious to Dante

the Persian horseman

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a cobalt-blue pottery ewer has a dragon’s-head spout and an early 19th-century fruit plate is shaped like a seashell

The result vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a painting by a great artist

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