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    Gainsborough
    Gainsborough
    Gainsborough
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    Gainsborough

    By Max Rothschild

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Gainsborough - Max Rothschild

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gainsborough, by Max Rothschild

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Gainsborough

      Author: Max Rothschild

      Release Date: April 10, 2012 [EBook #39416]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAINSBOROUGH ***

      Produced by sp1nd, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      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

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