Reference code
GAI/14
Title
Personal recollections of Thomas Gainsborough, by William Jackson
Date
[c.1788]
Level
Item
Extent & medium
5 pieces
Content Description
Describing Gainsborough's passion for music and how he purchased instruments from several celebrated musicians, as if he expected their music to remain in the fabric of their tool. He possessed ear, talent and genius but never the application to learn his notes. Moves on to talk of Gainsborough's painting, praising his drawings and his facility.
Bibliography
Later published as part of The Four Ages: together with essays on various subjects, William Jackson, 1798.