Figure 1.--One of the many colour illustrations found in the books, one by Vernon Nye, illustrates this story. It's from a story titled 'The Face in the Pear Tree'. It tells about a young Thomas Gainsborough.
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Figure 1.--One of the many colour illustrations found in the books, one by Vernon Nye, illustrates this story. It's from a story titled 'The Face in the Pear Tree'. It tells about a young Thomas Gainsborough. |
One of the many colour illustrations found in the books, one by Vernon Nye, illustrates this story. It's from a story titled 'The Face in the Pear Tree'. It tells about a young Thomas Gainsborough, who being a skilled and aspiring painter, one days paints a
face of a man that's hiding in his fathers pear tree plantation. The man is a thief and due to Gainsborough fine skill of depicting his face accurately, is positively identified and convicted. Later Thomas Gainsborough becomes famous for painting 'The Blue Boy'
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