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Last evening in Sanders Theatre Mr. Humphry Ward gave a mostinteresting lecture on Gainsborough, the third of the series on English Art in the Eighteenth Century...
...Gainsborough, said Mr. Ward, was in many respects the equal and in some the superior of Sir Joshua Reynolds; but only as an artist can he be compared to his great contemporary. Sir Joshua was a gentle courtier, the friend of all the prominent men of his time, and as president of the Royal Academy held the highest position an artist could hold. Gainsborough, on the other hand, was quick-tempered, rather illiterate, and chose his friends among a Bohemian set of actors and musicians...
...Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 at Sudbury, in Suffolk. As a school boy he often played the truant to ramble through the country making sketches of the woods and fields. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he was apprenticed to an engraver named Gravelot. He soon gave up this place and went to the artist Hayman, who must have been a bad master for so impulsive a lad as Gainsborough. At nineteen he returned home and had the good fortune to marry the beautiful and accomplished Margaret Burr...
Shortly after his marriage Gainsborough set up as a portrait painter. He owed his start to Sir Philip Fickness, who introduced him to a great many fashionable people, whose portraits he painted. During the time he lived in Suffolk he painted a great many landscapes, which show the first signs of his manner. He possessed a wonderful pictorial memory and there was scarce a tree or bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early...
Lecture. English Art in the Eighteenth Century - III. Gainsborough. Mr. Humphrey Ward. Sanders Theatre...