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(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1856 edition. Excerpt: ... clay model by Gainsborough, ) which,
unfortunately met with a similar fate. Gainsborough would now and
then mould the faces of his friends, in miniature, finding the
material in the wax candles burning before him; the models were as
perfect in their resemblance as bis portraits. It was not in
Thicknesse's nature, however, to live long in peace with any man.
For old associations' sake, Gainsborough suffered many annoyances
which, to his proud spirit, were hard to bear. At length
Thicknesse's conduct became intolerable, and Gainsborough
determined to rid himself of such an incubus. A characteristic
account of the breach between them is given by the Governor: "I
cannot help relating a very singular and extraordinary
circumstance, which arose between him, Mrs. Thicknesse, and myself;
for though it is very painful for me to reflect on, and much more
so to relate, it turned out fortunately for him, and thereby
lessened my concern, as he certainly had never gone from Bath to
London, had not this untoward circumstance arisen between us; and
it is no less singular, that I, who had taken so much pains to
remove him from Ipswich to Bath, should be the cause, twenty years
afterwards, of driving him from thence He had asked me, when he
first went to Bath, to give him the portrait of a little Spanish
girl painted upon copper, with a guitar in her hand, and a feather
in her hair, a picture now at his house in Pall-Mail, the study of
which he has often told me, made him a portrait painter; and as he
afterwards painted Mrs. Thicknesse's full length, before she was my
wife, he rolled it up in a landscape of the same size, and of his
own pencil, and sent it me to London by the waggon. I was much
surprised at the first opening of it, to see the head of a large...
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