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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
English Rococo Era/Romantic Painter, 1727-1788 English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was the contemporary and rival of Joshua Reynolds, who honoured him on 10 December 1788 with a valedictory Discourse (pubd London, 1789), in which he stated: 'If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of Art, among the very first of that rising name.' He went on to consider Gainsborough's portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures within the Old Master tradition, against which, in his view, modern painting had always to match itself. Reynolds was acknowledging a general opinion that Gainsborough was one of the most significant painters of their generation. Less ambitious than Reynolds in his portraits, he nevertheless painted with elegance and virtuosity. He founded his landscape manner largely on the study of northern European artists and developed a very beautiful and often poignant imagery of the British countryside. By the mid-1760s he was making formal allusions to a wide range of previous art, from Rubens and Watteau to, eventually, Claude and Titian. He was as various in his drawings and was among the first to take up the new printmaking techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. Because his friend, the musician and painter William Jackson (1730-1803), claimed that Gainsborough detested reading, there has been a tendency to deny him any literacy. He was, nevertheless, as his surviving letters show, verbally adept, extremely witty and highly cultured. He loved music and performed well. He was a person of rapidly changing moods, humorous, brilliant and witty. At the time of his death he was expanding the range of his art, having lived through one of the more complex and creative phases in the history of British painting. He painted with unmatched skill and bravura; while giving the impression of a kind of holy innocence, he was among the most artistically learned and sophisticated painters of his generation. It has been usual to consider his career in terms of the rivalry with Reynolds that was acknowledged by their contemporaries; while Reynolds maintained an intellectual and academic ideal of art, Gainsborough grounded his imagery on contemporary life, maintaining an aesthetic outlook previously given its most powerful expression by William Hogarth.

 

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Conversation in a Park sd oil painting

Painting ID::  6765

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Conversation in a Park sd
c. 1740 Oil on canvas, 73 x 68 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Mr and Mrs Andrews dg oil painting

Painting ID::  6766

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Mr and Mrs Andrews dg
1748-49 Oil on canvas, 70 x 119 cm National Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Landscape in Suffolk sdg oil painting

Painting ID::  6767

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Landscape in Suffolk sdg
c. 1750 Oil on canvas, 65 x 95 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas The Artist s Daughters with a Cat oil painting

Painting ID::  6768

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
The Artist s Daughters with a Cat
1759-61 Oil on canvas, 75,6 x 62,9 cm National Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Mary, Countess of Howe sd oil painting

Painting ID::  6769

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Mary, Countess of Howe sd
1764 Oil on canvas, 244 x 152,4 cm Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas River Landscape dg oil painting

Painting ID::  6770

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
River Landscape dg
1768-70 Oil on canvas, 119 x 168 cm Museum of Art, Philadelphia
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Master John Heathcote dfg oil painting

Painting ID::  6771

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Master John Heathcote dfg
1770 Oil on canvas, 127 x 101 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Johann Christian Bach sdf oil painting

Painting ID::  6772

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Johann Christian Bach sdf
1776 Oil on canvas Bibliografico Musicale, Museo Civico, Bologna
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Mrs Grace Dalrymple Elliot xdg oil painting

Painting ID::  6774

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Mrs Grace Dalrymple Elliot xdg
c. 1778 Oil on canvas, 234,3 x 153,6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Johann Christian Fischer dg oil painting

Painting ID::  6775

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Johann Christian Fischer dg
c. 1780 Oil on canvas, 228,6 x 150,5 cm Royal Collection, Windsor
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Mr and Mrs William Hallett (The Morning Walk) oil painting

Painting ID::  6776

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Mr and Mrs William Hallett (The Morning Walk)
1785 Oil on canvas, 236 x 179 cm National Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Mrs Sarah Siddons dfg oil painting

Painting ID::  6777

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Mrs Sarah Siddons dfg
1785 Oil on canvas, 126 x 99,5 cm National Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas The Marsham Children rdfg oil painting

Painting ID::  6778

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
The Marsham Children rdfg
1787 Oil on canvas, 243 x 182 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Self-Portrait dfhh oil painting

Painting ID::  6779

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Self-Portrait dfhh
1787 Oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas The Artist-s Daughters with a Cat oil painting

Painting ID::  43632

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
The Artist-s Daughters with a Cat
1759-61 Oil on canvas, 75,6 x 62,9 cm
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Six studies of a cat oil painting

Painting ID::  43944

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Six studies of a cat
310 x 447 mm
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas the blue boy oil painting

Painting ID::  64316

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
the blue boy
1779 henry e, huntingdon art gallery, san marino
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Tochter des Kunstlers oil painting

Painting ID::  70541

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Tochter des Kunstlers
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 76 ?? 64,5 cm
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Thomas Graham oil painting

Painting ID::  70685

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Thomas Graham
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 237 ?? 154 cm
   
   
     

 

 

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Portrat des Heneage Lloyd und seiner Schwester oil painting

Painting ID::  70740

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Portrat des Heneage Lloyd und seiner Schwester
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 64 ?? 80 cm
   
   
     

 

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
English Rococo Era/Romantic Painter, 1727-1788 English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was the contemporary and rival of Joshua Reynolds, who honoured him on 10 December 1788 with a valedictory Discourse (pubd London, 1789), in which he stated: 'If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of Art, among the very first of that rising name.' He went on to consider Gainsborough's portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures within the Old Master tradition, against which, in his view, modern painting had always to match itself. Reynolds was acknowledging a general opinion that Gainsborough was one of the most significant painters of their generation. Less ambitious than Reynolds in his portraits, he nevertheless painted with elegance and virtuosity. He founded his landscape manner largely on the study of northern European artists and developed a very beautiful and often poignant imagery of the British countryside. By the mid-1760s he was making formal allusions to a wide range of previous art, from Rubens and Watteau to, eventually, Claude and Titian. He was as various in his drawings and was among the first to take up the new printmaking techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. Because his friend, the musician and painter William Jackson (1730-1803), claimed that Gainsborough detested reading, there has been a tendency to deny him any literacy. He was, nevertheless, as his surviving letters show, verbally adept, extremely witty and highly cultured. He loved music and performed well. He was a person of rapidly changing moods, humorous, brilliant and witty. At the time of his death he was expanding the range of his art, having lived through one of the more complex and creative phases in the history of British painting. He painted with unmatched skill and bravura; while giving the impression of a kind of holy innocence, he was among the most artistically learned and sophisticated painters of his generation. It has been usual to consider his career in terms of the rivalry with Reynolds that was acknowledged by their contemporaries; while Reynolds maintained an intellectual and academic ideal of art, Gainsborough grounded his imagery on contemporary life, maintaining an aesthetic outlook previously given its most powerful expression by William Hogarth.