A right royal face-off : a Georgian comedy featuring Thomas Gainsborough and another painter
Edge, Simon, 1964-2019
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It is 1777, and England's second-greatest portrait artist, Thomas Gainsborough, has a thriving practice a stone's thrown from London's royal palaces, while the press talks up his rivalry with Sir Joshua Reynolds, the pedantic theoretician who is the top dog of British portraiture. Fonder of the low life than high society, Gainsborough loathes pandering to the grandees who sit for him. However, he changes his tune when he is commissioned to paint King George III, his German queen and their vast family.
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Author:
Edge, Simon, 1964-, author
Imprint:
Much Wenlock : Lightning Books, 2019.
Collation:
272 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781785631306 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6105
Local class:
FT Pbk
Language:
English
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BRN:
2541757