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Título: A Right Royal Face Off
Condición: Nuevo
Subtítulos: A Georgian Entertainment featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter
Autor: Simon Edge
Formato: Tapa blanda
EAN: 9781785631306
ISBN: 9781785631306
Publisher: Lightning Books
Género: Fiction
Tema: Historical Fiction
Fecha de publicación: 25/07/2019
Description: It is 1777, and England's second-greatest portrait artist, Thomas Gainsborough, has a thriving practice a stone's thrown from London's royal palaces. Meanwhile, the press talks up his rivalry with Sir Joshua Reynolds, the pedantic theoretician who is the top dog of British portraiture.Fonder of the low life than high society, Gainsborough loathes pandering to grand sitters, but he changes his tune when he is commissioned to paint King George III and his large family. In their final, most bitter competition, who will be chosen as court painter, Tom or Sir Joshua?Two and a half centuries later, a badly damaged painting turns up on a downmarket TV antiques show being filmed in Suffolk. Could the monstrosity really be, as its eccentric owner claims, a Gainsborough? If so, who is the sitter? And why does he have donkey's ears?Mixing ancient and modern as he did in his acclaimed debut The Hopkins Conundrum, Simon Edge takes aim at fakery and pretension in this highly original celebration of one of our greatest artists.
País/Región de fabricación: GB
Altura del artículo: 198mm
Longitud del artículo: 129mm
Ancho del artículo: 17mm
Peso: 240g
Idioma: inglés
Año de publicación: 2019

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