Gainsboroughs Cottage Doors: An Insight Into the Artists Last Decade - (Belsey Hugh)(Paperback)

Inspired by the recent identification of a third autograph version of Gainsboroughs masterpiece The Cottage Door, this book examines the significance of the multiple versions of designs that the artist produced during the 1780s. It demonstrates that without the pressure of exhibiting his work annually at the Academy and without a string of sitters waiting for their finished portraits, Gainsboroughs work became more personal, more thoughtful. This study of the last phase of the artists work is a totally fresh interpretation of not only The Cottage Door but other key works such as Mrs Sheridan and Diana and Acteon. Gainsboroughs creative energies changed around 1780. He became restless and wanted to promote his landscape painting more effectively. He started to paint coastal scenes using an innovative painting technique to depict the water and he embarked on a series of fancy
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