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End Notes
Masters of All they Survey -- Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews

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[1] Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen, “The Proper Combination of Activity and Leisure” in What Great Pictures Say, Vol 1, Taschen. Koln, at 298
[2] Quoted in James Hamilton, Gainsborough; A Portrait, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2017 at 260
[3] 119 cm (46 in) wide; 70 cm (27 in) high
[4] Though landscape would feature to some extent in portraits such as Heanage Lloyd and his Sister (1750)
[5] At the time, the penalty for poaching was deportation
[6] Ingrid E Mida, Reading Fashion in Art, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, at 100
[7] Hagen, op cit at 299
[8] Hagen, op cit at 300
[9] Hamilton, op cit at 98
[10] Hamilton, op cit at 97
[11] Kimberley Schutte, “Marrying by the Numbers: Marriage Patterns of Aristocratic British Women, 1485-2000”, Ph D thesis, 18 April 2011, at 2. Accessed at https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/8189/Schutte_ku_0099D_11418_DATA_1.pdf
[12] This was after Frances’ father had died and Robert’s mother’s life interest in the property terminated on her death:  Hamilton, op cit at 97 
[13] Quoted in John Berger, Ways of Seeing, BBC/Penguin Books, London 1972, at 107
[14] Berger, op cit at 108
[15] Hamilton, op cit at 217, 218, 225.Broccoli had only recently been introduced in England at the time
[16] One commentator interprets Frances as having a “melted and languorous look”: Andrew Graham-Dixon, A History of British Art, University of California Press,1999, at 110
[17] Interestingly, there is also a rather indeterminate treatment of a woman’s lap in Gainsborough’s earlier portrait of the Carters (Fig 8)
[18] He may also have been particularly sensitive about the fact that the Carter family had been his financially-troubled father’s principal creditor: Hamilton, op cit at 96
[19] Hamilton, op cit at 101  
[20] Hamilton, op cit at 99-100
[21] One commentator goes so far as to describe the work as “one of the masterpieces of erotic painting”: Graham-Dixon, op cit at 110
[22] Hamilton, op cit at 46
[23] Hamilton, op cit at 2
[24] Hamilton, op cit at 100
[25] Hamilton, op cit at 101
[26] Hamilton, op cit at 101

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