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Gainsborough's Georgian England

14/03/2009

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Gainsborough's Georgian England

Catherine Bott explores some of Thomas Gainsborough's portraits of musicians.

Catherine Bott and art historian Michael Rosenthal explore what Thomas Gainsborough's paintings of musical subjects reveal about the role of music in late 18th century England.

Thomas Gainsborough had a deep love of music and many of his portraits include musical themes. He was himself a keen amateur player of the gamba and he had many musicians as friends, and feautured them as subjects for his portraits. Catherine Bott meets art historian and author of several books on the artist, Michael Rosenthal of Warwick University, for an exploration of what the Gainsborough portraits tell us about the role of music in the late 18th Century. The programme includes comment about Gainsborough's portraits of Karl Friedrich Abel; Johann Christian Bach; and the Linley family, as well as paintings of some notable amateurs from the English gentry such as William Wollaston and the redoubtable Anne Ford.

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