Title Gainsborough in Bath / Susan Sloman

Published New Haven, Conn. ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2002] ©2002

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Description 266 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, 1 plan ; 29 cm Contents 1. Bath: 'the busiest idle place in the world' -- 2. Mrs Margaret Gainsborough: 'a prince's daughter' -- 3. 'Mr. Gainsborough' Arrives: Bath 1758-1759 -- 4. 'Your Likeness Man, Tho Gainsborough' -- 5. 'Daubing away for the Exhibition': Show Pictures and Exhibitions -- 6. Portraits 'for Bread' and Portraits for Friends -- 7. 'Nature sat to Mr. Gainsborough' -- 8. 'Something more elevated': The Intellectual Elite of Bath -- 9. 'The coquetry of nature' -- 10. Gainsborough of Bath -- App. I. Artists in Bath in the Eighteenth Century -- App. II. Thomas Gainsborough's Account at Hoare's Bank, Fleet Street -- App. III. Gainsborough's Portrait Prices -- App. IV. Gainsborough's Exhibited Portraits Notes Maps on endpapers Bibliography Includes bibliography and index Subject Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788. Portrait painters -- England -- Biography. Painters -- England -- Biography. SUBJECT Bath (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80006275 -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006344 Bath (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80006275 -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005043 Genre/Form Biographies. Author Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. LC no. 2002001891 ISBN 0300097115 :

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