Book: A Right Royal Face-Off

A Right Royal Face-Off: A Georgian Comedy Featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter -- a novel by Simon Edge. "It's 1777 and artist Thomas Gainsborough has a rivalry with Sir Joshua Reynolds, the top dog of British portraiture. Fonder of low life than high society, Gainsborough loathes pandering to the toffee-noses who sit for him. But when he's commissioned to paint King George III, his German queen and their vast family, Gainsborough changes his tune. Meanwhile, two and a half centuries later, a badly damaged painting turns up on a downmarket antiques TV show being filmed in Suffolk. Could the monstrosity really be, as its eccentric owner claims, a Gainsborough? If so, who is the sitter? And why does the sitter have donkey’s ears?" Paperback. Bought new, still like new.