Landschaftsökologische Forschung Als Grundlage und Voraussetzung der Landschaftsplanung

Gainsborough and the Landscape of Retirement

“…However, as Buchwald has pointed out, the image of Gainsborough as 'an unlearned natural' was something fostered by his contemporaries, particularly Thicknesse 'probably for the purpose of inflating his own role in forming Gainsborough's taste and abilities'. 24 Buchwald also suggests that Gainsborough's letter to Lord Hardwicke, 'may prove little more than an unwillingness to be condescended to by a fine gentleman, for we know that he spent a good deal of time in his Suffolk years doing precisely what this letter denies -copying "real views from Nature" \ 2 5 One can equally well envisage a man of Gainsborough's explosive temperament and keen awareness of his own creativity in relation to that of others, exclaiming in conversation: T can't stand literary men and I hardly ever read a book'.…”