Thomas Gainsborough
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Mr Morgan's example, the mar- vellous recovery of which is well known to everyone, is said to be the later portrait, 96 STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT OF A LADY (British Museum) TG^ THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH exhibited in the Royal Academy in ITS'?, but it bears little likeness to the authentic portraits of the Duchess by Reynolds, and other con- temporary artists. Of the Duke's two wives, it is decidedly more like the second, Lady Betty Foster, but it may be a portrait of neither of these ladies.
Fulcher place...s the painting of the famous Blue Boy (see page 35), a portrait of Master Jonathan Buttall, the son of a rich ironmonger of Soho, and now belonging to the Duke of Westminster, early in the year 1779- His chief reason for dating it in this year seems to be the fact that on the 10th of the previous December, Sir Joshua, in his eighth Discourse to the students of the Royal Academy delivered himself of the well-known dictum to refute which, as it was commonly reported in Fulcher' s day, this picture had been painted by Gainsborough, The passage in the Discourse is as follows : — " It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed, that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm, mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish white ; and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used onl}' 98 THOMAS GAIXSBOROrOH to support and set off these warm colours ; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colours will be sufficient.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Mr Morgan's example, the mar- vellous recovery of which is well known to everyone, is said to be the later portrait, 96 STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT OF A LADY (British Museum) TG^ THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH exhibited in the Royal Academy in ITS'?, but it bears little likeness to the authentic portraits of the Duchess by Reynolds, and other con- temporary artists. Of the Duke's two wives, it is decidedly more like the second, Lady Betty Foster, but it may be a portrait of neither of these ladies.
Fulcher place...s the painting of the famous Blue Boy (see page 35), a portrait of Master Jonathan Buttall, the son of a rich ironmonger of Soho, and now belonging to the Duke of Westminster, early in the year 1779- His chief reason for dating it in this year seems to be the fact that on the 10th of the previous December, Sir Joshua, in his eighth Discourse to the students of the Royal Academy delivered himself of the well-known dictum to refute which, as it was commonly reported in Fulcher' s day, this picture had been painted by Gainsborough, The passage in the Discourse is as follows : — " It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed, that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm, mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish white ; and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used onl}' 98 THOMAS GAIXSBOROrOH to support and set off these warm colours ; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colours will be sufficient.
What to read after Thomas Gainsborough?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Sir Walter Armstrong to read onlineMoreLess
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