TY - BOOK ID - 1473137 TI - Gainsborough's vision AU - Asfour, Amal. AU - Williamson, Paul PY - 1999 SN - 1846313163 9781846313165 085323874X 9780853238744 PB - Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Landscape painting, British KW - Painters KW - Portrait painting, British KW - Gainsborough, Thomas, KW - British portrait painting KW - British landscape painting KW - Geĭnsboro, Tomas, KW - Geĭnzbŭro, Tomas, KW - Gainsborough, Thomas UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1473137 AB - Thomas Gainsborough, one of the most popular British painters, has been celebrated as a landscapist, a portrait painter, and a man of feeling whose impetuous character is revealed in his art, life and letters. This book reveals that the style, themes and ideas of Gainsborough's paintings constitute purposeful expressions of an intellectual and visual culture whose importance in the development of eighteenth-century British art has gone unrecognised. ER -