Identifier: fairwomeninpaint00shar (find matches)
Title: Fair women in painting and poetry
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sharp, William, 1855-1905
Subjects: Women in literature Women in art Women Beauty, Personal
Publisher: London : Seeley New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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hanging. I told Clubb of that, and he seemed to think I was lucky that I did not say one in a hundred. Its too late to ask your pardon now, but really, Sir, I never saw one of your profession look so honest in my life, and thats the reason I concluded you were in the wool-trade. Sir Jasper Wood was so kind as to set me right, otherwise perhaps I should have made more blunders. I am, Sir, Your most obedient and obliged humble servant, Tho. Gainsborough. Ipswich, March 13, 1758. Of all the friendships formed at this period, however, that which was of most significance in the painters career was undoubtedly the intimacy with that Philip Thicknesse to whom we have already had occasion to allude more than once. To judge fairly of the complications 1 The picture, judging from a letter of an earlier date, was a portrait of his correspondent. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH 23 that arose from this friendship, it is necessary to know something of the governors character. No doubt Thicknesse had redeeming qualities,
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Portrait of Lady Ray. otherwise he could scarcely have enjoyed a long intimacy with one so essentially intelligent and lovable as Gainsborough. But these were ERRATUM. In the Portfolio for September Gainsboroughs portrait of Lady Mary Carr, reproduced by kind permission of Mr. Tooth, was wrongly entitled Lady Ray. 2+ THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH obscured by absurdities, and lost sight of in the general irritation excited by his querulous foolishness. All contemporary evidence paints Thicknesse as a quarrelsome, self-sufficient busy body, whose vagaries were not even tempered by the good-nature which is supposed to go with folly. He had in a remarkable degree, says Fulcher, the faculty of lessening the number of his friends, and increasing the number of his enemies. He was perpetually imagining insult, and would sniff an injury from afar. . . . Contention was necessary to his existence. It seems undeniable, however, that he appreciated the genius of Gainsborough, and had a real affection for him, so far a

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