I asked Peter Holman for further details of Ann Ford with a Spanish guitar (not English guitar)and he dropped me the following note: ' It's a sketch that's now at Gainsborough's house in Sudbury reproduced in my article, and in Michael Rosenthal's recent book on Gainsborough.' Martyn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a recent conversation with Peter Holman (Parley Director) who has a > particular interest and knowledge of 17/18th and early 19thC British music he > mentioned that, in addition to the various reasonably well known portaits of > her (including with 'English' guitar), there were a number of Gainsborough > sketches with one of her playing the Spanish guitar. > > For all I know this may be common knowledge amongst most of you; if not and > if it's of any interest, let me know and I'll find out more. > > Martyn > It would be interesting to know more about this. Tha famous Gainsborough portrait is this: http://www.bestpriceart.com/painting/?image=gainsb18.jpg&tc=cgfa Ann Ford married Philip Thicknesse: the portrait is of Mrs Philip Thicknesse. Evidently Gainsborough had a guittar too. It would be a bit surprising if she was sketched holding a Spanish guitar. There's another good portrait of someone holding a guittar, possibly by Reynolds. I saw it in a second hand book at a time when I wasn't remotely interested in the guittar. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com --
