Gainsborough’s Family Album

David H. Solkin, Ann Bermingham, Susan Sloman , Susan Sloman

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English

National Portrait Gallery Publications
01 January 2019

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Despite this famous protestation in

a letter to his friend William Jackson, Gainsborough was

clearly prepared to make an exception when it came to making portraits of his own family and

himself. This book,

and the major exhibition it accompanies, features a dozen portraits of his

daughters Mary and Margaret, the same number of himself and his wife Margaret (though,

perhaps tellingly, only one of the couple together), as well as works depicting four of his five

siblings,

his handsome nephew Gainsborough Dupont (who became his studio assistant) , an

aunt and uncle, several in - laws and - last, but not least

- his beloved dogs, Tristram and Fox.

Spanning more than four decades,

Gainsborough's family portraits chart the period from the

mid - 1740s, when he plied his trade in his native Suffolk , through his time in Bath ( 1758 - 74 ), when he established hi mself with a rich and

fashionable clientele , to his most successful

latter

years at his luxuriously appointed studio in London's We st End. Alongside this story of a

provincial 18th - century artist's rise

to fame and fortune runs a more private narrative, ab out

the role of portraiture in the promotion of family values, at a time when these were assuming

a recogni s ably modern form.

In the first of three introductory essays, David

H.

Solkin writes on Gainsborough himself,

placing his family portraits in the

context of earlier practice

- including

that of the Flemish

master Peter Paul Rubens and British portraitists from

Mary Beale to Joseph Highmore . Ann Bermingham explores Gainsborough's portraits of his daughters, with particular reference to

two finished double portraits painted seven years apart and the tragic story arising from them. Susan Sloman discusses Margaret's

role as her husband's business manager,

its

effect on the

family dynamic and hence the visual representation of its members.

By: David H. Solkin
Text by: Ann Bermingham, Susan Sloman, Susan Sloman
Imprint: National Portrait Gallery Publications
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 240mm,
Weight: 1.430kg
ISBN: 9781855147904
ISBN 10: 1855147904
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active