I’ve taken an interest in Thomas Gainsborough’s work, mainly because he held a studio in my hometown of Bath, England. He was known to rather tire of undertaking portraits for the gentry, through which he made a good living, quipping: “this curs’d Face Business…..”
That said, he lovingly painted a series of family portraits, on show at the UK’s National Portrait Gallery: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/19/home-is-where-the-art-is-margaret-drabble-on-gainsboroughs-family-portraits
Perhaps Hockney was right to advise: “It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.” !!
Break-a-Brush!
David
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“Confound the nose, there’s no end to it!” Thomas Gainsborough