Word: gainsboroughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco importer, Louis P. Gainsborough, came back from a tour through the Orient, profoundly worried. "The more I traveled," says he, "the more I saw how badly we needed friends. I decided right then that I'd dedicate myself to creating an awareness of Asia...
...satirists and moralists who ever etched an engraving, Hogarth at his best could paint circles around most of his contemporaries. His portrait of Captain Thomas Coram, philanthropist-founder of London's Foundling Hospital, displays a British humor and humanity that Hogarth's two famous 18th Century successors, Gainsborough and Reynolds, too often sacrificed for a slick and fawning elegance. His March of the Guards Towards Scotland, an action-filled canvas of the departure of George II's soldiers to put down Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highlands uprising of 1745, is ironic Hogarth realism at its sharpest...
...Victorian era. In 35 years, he stole $4,000,000, never once resorted to violence. He forged checks on a Turkish bank, grabbed ?70,000 worth of rough diamonds in South Africa, stole 700,000 francs worth of bonds from the Calais-Paris express, and once took a famous Gainsborough painting from its frame in a London dealer's gallery. Operating mainly in Europe, he stayed out of reach of the Pinkertons, was imprisoned only twice for petty thefts. During Worth's heyday, he and William Pinkerton frequently met in a fashionable London bar and developed a fond...
...described as "an amiable and extravagant peer, without any particular talent except for conviviality." He did have sense enough to protest the policy of taxing the American Colonies in 1775, observing that it was "commenced in iniquity, is pursued with resentment, and can terminate in nothing but blood." Thomas Gainsborough's portrait makes Manners look dull and mannered, though no one knew better than Gainsborough how to paint the freshness of youth (as his famed Blue Boy demonstrates...
Captain Harry Crookshank, Tory M.P. for Gainsborough, rose last week in the House of Commons and described the condition of Britain. Said he: "There is muddle in defense, muddle in groundnuts, jmddle in newsprint, muddle in coal, muddle in housing, and now the greatest muddle of all-meat. 'Muddle, muddle toil and muddle' is [the government's] motto. The trouble is that these witches somewhere on the Whitehall heath cannot go on to say, 'Fire burn and cauldron bubble,' because there is a fuel muddle as well...