ISBN 978-1-60606-675-1

and questions raised by the symposium

53 color and 24 b/w illustrations

She was the author of Food and Cooking in 19th Century Britain (English Heritage

Edited with a new introduction

Lives of Gainsborough spectrum ISBN 978-1-60606-675-1Philip Thicknesse, William Jackson, and Sir Joshua Reynolds Thomas Gainsborough (17271788) was a leading English landscape and portrait painter, draftsman, and printmaker who is now considered one of the most important British artists of the eighteenth century. This volume illuminates his life, career, personality, and passions through three diverse character sketches by Philip Thicknesse, an eccentric British adventurer, businessman, and writer;