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Gainsborough - Max Rothschild
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Title: Gainsborough
Author: Max Rothschild
Release Date: April 10, 2012 [EBook #39416]
Language: English
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Gainsborough
MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR
Masterpieces in Colour
Series
Others in Preparation.
PLATE I.—MRS. SIDDONS. (Frontispiece)
This famous portrait of Mrs. Siddons was painted in 1784. It is one of the chief ornaments in the National Gallery, London. It represents the celebrated actress in her twenty-ninth year. The picture was purchased in 1862 from a relative of Mrs. Siddons.
PLATE I.—MRS. SIDDONS.
Gainsborough
BY MAX ROTHSCHILD
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
I
PAINTING IN ENGLAND BEFORE GAINSBOROUGH
The British school of painting was, compared with those of the other nations of Western Europe, the latest to develop. In Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and even Scandinavia painting and sculpture flourished as early as the Gothic Age, and in most of these countries the Renaissance produced a host of craftsmen whose works still endure among the most superb creations of artistic genius. It is now inexact to say that there was no primitive period in British Art; the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, so resplendent on the Continent with pictures and