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… subjects, and thereby endow their features with the joyful or peaceful air expected in portraits. Eliciting the expressions commonly associated with, among other pleasant topics, ‘ the sight of a friend, a reflection upon a scheme well … Haven and London, 1937), p. 20-22, quoted in Susan Sloman, Gainsborough in Bath (New Haven and London: Yale University Press), p. 20. It is thus no surprise that artists should have set up their homes and studios in the genteel areas where … later recalled by portrait painter William Beechey’s son. See Susan Sloman, Gainsborough in London (London: Modern Art Press, 2021), p. 55. Though rumours had it that bachelors like Romney or Reynolds privately entertained lady friends in …
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