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...Humphrey Ward will give this evening at 7.45 in Sanders Theatre, the third of his lectures on English Art in the Eighteenth Century. The subject for this evening is "Gainsborough...
Lecture. English Art in the Eighteenth Century - III. Gainsborough. Mr. Humphrey Ward. Sanders Theatre...
...Gainsborough...
...president. At that time England was intensely aristocratic. Everything was judged by the standards of old families. Obviously if art was ever to find a place in England it had to be taken up and encouraged by the influential classes. Had Sir Joshua never lived, it is improbable that Gainsborough or Romney would have led the people to demand more than Hogarth's prints; for combined with the highest artistic taste, he possessed all the qualifications of a man of letters...
...Gainsborough...