The definitive biography and critical assessment of Romantic visionary Joseph Gandy by the acknowledged authority. Joseph Gandy's life is the classic story of genius unrecognized. When he died he seemed to the world, and to himself, a failure. Having begun his career with high hopes, ideals, imagination, and talent, he ended it miserable, poor, and confined in a lunatic asylum. That was in 1843. A century and a half later he is considered one of the most original figures of English Romanticism. In his own eyes he was an architect, fit to stand beside the great masters of...
The definitive biography and critical assessment of Romantic visionary Joseph Gandy by the acknowledged authority. Joseph Gandy's life is the clas...