Editing Bath, Somerset (section)

===The arts===
[[File:Holbornemuseum.jpg|thumb|[[Holburne Museum]]]]
During the 18th century [[Thomas Gainsborough]] and [[Sir Thomas Lawrence]] lived and worked in Bath.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/gainsborough.html |title=Thomas Gainsborough |access-date=9 December 2007 |work=The Artchive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214172531/http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/gainsborough.html |archive-date=14 December 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.histclo.com/art/artist-law.html |title=Artists Illustrating Boys' Fashions: Sir Thomas Lawrence (England, 1769–1830) |work=Historical Boys Clothing |access-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030255/http://www.histclo.com/art/artist-law.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[John Maggs]], a painter best known for coaching scenes, was born and lived in Bath with his artistic family.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/John_Maggs |title=John Maggs |publisher=Art History Club |access-date=27 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213144132/http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/John_Maggs |archive-date=13 February 2012 }}</ref>

[[Jane Austen]] lived there from 1801 with her father, mother and sister Cassandra, and the family resided at four different addresses until 1806.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.janeausten.co.uk/ |title=Jane Austen Centre |access-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526093209/http://www.janeausten.co.uk/ |archive-date=26 May 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> Jane Austen never liked the city, and wrote to Cassandra, "It will be two years tomorrow since we left Bath for Clifton, with what happy feelings of escape."<ref>{{cite book |title=Jane Austen: A Life |last=David |first=David |year=1998 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-21606-8 |page=264 }}</ref> Bath has honoured her name with the Jane Austen Centre and a city walk. Austen's ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'' and ''[[Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion]]'' are set in the city and describe taking the waters, social life, and music recitals.

[[William Friese-Greene]] experimented with celluloid and motion pictures in his studio in the 1870s, developing some of the earliest movie camera technology. He is credited as being one of the inventors of [[cinematography]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.victorian-cinema.net/friesegreene.htm |title=William Friese Greene |access-date=9 December 2007 |work=Who's Who of Victorian Cinema |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018232840/http://www.victorian-cinema.net/friesegreene.htm |archive-date=18 October 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Satirist and political journalist [[William Hone]] was born in Bath in 1780.

Taking the waters is described in [[Charles Dickens]]' novel ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' in which Pickwick's servant, [[Sam Weller (character)|Sam Weller]], comments that the water has "a very strong flavour o' warm flat irons". The Royal Crescent is the venue for a chase between two characters, Dowler and Winkle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dickens-literature.com/The_Pickwick_Papers/ |title=The Pickwick Papers |access-date=10 December 2007 |work=Complete works of Charles Dickens |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207011018/http://www.dickens-literature.com/The_Pickwick_Papers/ |archive-date=7 December 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Moyra Caldecott]]'s novel ''The Waters of Sul'' is set in Roman Bath in AD&nbsp;72, and ''[[The Regency Detective]]'', by [[David Lassman]] and [[Terence James]], revolves around the exploits of Jack Swann investigating deaths in the city during the early 19th century.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pageturners |url=http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Pageturners/story-19340352-detail/story.html |access-date=4 May 2015 |work=Bath Chronicle |date=20 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923192528/http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Pageturners/story-19340352-detail/story.html |archive-date=23 September 2015 }}</ref> [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]]'s play ''[[The Rivals]]'' takes place in the city,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theatrehistory.com/irish/rivals.html |title=The Rivals: A synopsis of the play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan |work=Theatre History.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130135018/http://www.theatrehistory.com/irish/rivals.html |archive-date=30 November 2007 |url-status=live |access-date=2 May 2015 }}</ref> as does [[Roald Dahl]]'s chilling short story, [[The Landlady (short story)|''The Landlady'']].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/britlit/landlady |format=PDF |title=The Landlady by Roald Dahl |access-date=21 November 2009 |work=Teaching English |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012042247/http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/britlit/landlady |archive-date=12 October 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Many films and television programmes have been filmed using its architecture as the backdrop, including the 2004 [[Vanity Fair (2004 film)|film]] of [[William Makepeace Thackeray|Thackeray]]'s ''[[Vanity Fair (novel)|Vanity Fair]]'',<ref name="imdb"/> ''[[The Duchess (film)|The Duchess]]'' (2008),<ref name="imdb"/> ''[[The Elusive Pimpernel (1950 film)|The Elusive Pimpernel]]'' (1950)<ref name="imdb"/> and ''[[The Titfield Thunderbolt]]'' (1953).<ref name="imdb">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/search/title?endings=on&&locations=Bath,%20Somerset,%20England,%20UK&&heading=18;with+locations+including;Bath,%20Somerset,%20England,%20UK |title=Titles with locations including Bath, Somerset |access-date=10 December 2007 |publisher=Internet Movie Database |archive-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123225454/https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?endings=on&locations=Bath%2C+Somerset%2C+England%2C+UK&heading=18&with+locations+including=&Bath%2C+Somerset%2C+England%2C+UK= |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, Pulteney Weir was used as a replacement location during post production of the film adaptation of [[Les Misérables (2012 film)|''Les Misérables'']]. Stunt shots were filmed in October 2012 after footage acquired during the main filming period was found to have errors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Hollywood-comes-Bath-Les-Miserables-filmed/story-17148621-detail/story.html |title=Movie version of West End musical Les Miserables filming in Bath |publisher=This is Bath |date=23 October 2012 |access-date=26 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023130633/http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Hollywood-comes-Bath-Les-Miserables-filmed/story-17148621-detail/story.html |archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref> The ITV police drama [[McDonald & Dodds]] is set and mostly filmed in Bath using many of the city's famous sites.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Selby |first=Jenn |date=15 March 2020 |title=All the filming locations for scenic crime drama McDonald & Dodds |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/mcdonald-and-dodds-filming-locations-where-filmed-itv-bath-bristol-drama-series-403165 |access-date=19 July 2022 |website=inews.co.uk |language=en |archive-date=19 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719123453/https://inews.co.uk/culture/mcdonald-and-dodds-filming-locations-where-filmed-itv-bath-bristol-drama-series-403165 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In August 2003 [[The Three Tenors]] sang at a concert to mark the opening of the Thermae Bath Spa, a new hot water [[Thermae|spa]] in the city centre, but delays to the project meant the spa actually opened three years later on 7 August 2006.<ref>{{cite web |last=Carey |first=Peter |title=Reviving the Cross Bath |url=http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/crossbath/crossbath.htm |publisher=Building Conservation |access-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923195123/http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/crossbath/crossbath.htm |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2008, 104 decorated pigs were displayed around the city in a public art event called "King Bladud's Pigs in Bath". It celebrated the city, its origins and artists. Decorated pig sculptures were displayed throughout the summer and were auctioned to raise funds for [[Two Tunnels Greenway]].<ref>{{cite web |title=King Bladud's Pigs in Bath |url=http://www.kingbladudspigs.org/ |publisher=King Bladud's Pigs in Bath |access-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509220216/http://www.kingbladudspigs.org/ |archive-date=9 May 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>