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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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re as thoroughly at peace with itself,as completely singleminded in its aim, as free from accident and irrelevanceas a Van Goyen, or a Ruysdael. According to the earliest version of his history, it was on one of hissketching expeditions that Gainsborough fell in love with his future wife.The artist was at work upon a group of fine trees, with sheep reposingbelow and wood-doves roosting above, when a beautiful girl appeared onthe scene, and as Cunningham quaintly puts it, was at once admittedinto the landscape and the feelings of the artist. But in Fulchers Lifethe pretty pastoral is demolished, and a less idyllic legend substituted.Miss Margaret Burr was, it seems, the sister of a traveller employed inthe business of Gainsborough the elder. Her extraordinary beauty waslong a tradition in Suffolk, and on the arrival of the young artist fromLondon, the country belle was naturally eager to have her portrait painted.The sittings, which were protracted to the utmost, ended in the betrothal
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Portrait of Orpin, Paris/: Clerk of Bradford-on-A?on. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH 17 of the young couple. They were married the following year ; Gains-borough being then nineteen, and his wife twelve months younger.Unlike many such ventures, this early marriage was in all respectsfortunate. Mrs. Gainsborough brought an income of £200 a year toher husband, who was thus enabled to start on his career without anyharassing dependence on daily effort for existence. She was further awoman of sweet and equable temper, and proved the most tender andfaithful of companions. Even Thicknesse, whose animosity she incurredby a desire with which he credited her to detach her husband from him-self, could find no charge more damaging to bring against her than oneof thriftiness verging on parsimony. He declares that the painter neverdared to drive up to his own door in a hackney coach, fearing his wifeswrath at the extravagance of such a luxury, and that he was invariablyset down some hundred yards or so shor

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  • bookyear:1894
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Sharp__William__1855_1905
  • booksubject:Women_in_literature
  • booksubject:Women_in_art
  • booksubject:Women
  • booksubject:Beauty__Personal
  • bookpublisher:London___Seeley_
  • bookpublisher:_New_York___Macmillan
  • bookcontributor:Harold_B__Lee_Library
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  • bookleafnumber:206
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