Carl Friederich Abel, Ann Ford and Thomas Gainsborough…. “that” viol revealed.
Every few years viol players in England return with the same question, asking what the viol is in the famous painting of Carl Friederich Abel painted by Thomas Gainsborough. A surprise observation likely provides the answer once and for all. Benjamin Hebbert writes. In June 2019 I travelled to Innsbruck to attend a conference marking the 400th anniversary of the […]
