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A Right Royal Face Off - A Georgian Entertainment featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter (Paperback)
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A Right Royal Face Off - A Georgian Entertainment featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter (Paperback)
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List price R288
Loot Price R262
Discovery Miles 2 620
You Save R26 (9%)
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It is 1777, and England's second-greatest portrait artist, Thomas
Gainsborough, has a thriving practice a stone's thrown from
London's royal palaces. Meanwhile, the press talks up his rivalry
with Sir Joshua Reynolds, the pedantic theoretician who is the top
dog of British portraiture. Fonder of the low life than high
society, Gainsborough loathes pandering to grand sitters, but he
changes his tune when he is commissioned to paint King George III
and his large family. In their final, most bitter competition, who
will be chosen as court painter, Tom or Sir Joshua? Two and a half
centuries later, a badly damaged painting turns up on a downmarket
TV antiques show being filmed in Suffolk. Could the monstrosity
really be, as its eccentric owner claims, a Gainsborough? If so,
who is the sitter? And why does he have donkey's ears? Mixing
ancient and modern as he did in his acclaimed debut The Hopkins
Conundrum, Simon Edge takes aim at fakery and pretension in this
highly original celebration of one of our greatest artists.
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