Thomas Gainsborough

1727–1788 · United Kingdom · Rococo

Thomas Gainsborough (; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker who specialised in portrait and landscape painting. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he was one of the most important British artists of the 18th century. Wikipedia

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Feathery brushwork, elegant sitters in silks posed in landscape settings, and soft, airy English countryside.

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“The Blue Boy”, 1770 — The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
“Mr and Mrs Andrews”, 1748 — National Gallery
“Portrait of a Lady in Blue”, 1780 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire”, 1785 — Chatsworth House
“The Honourable Mrs Graham”, 1775 — National Galleries of Scotland
“Conversation in a Park”, 1746 — Louvre
“Cornard Wood”, 1748 — National Gallery
“Mr and Mrs William Hallett ('The Morning Walk')”, 1785 — National Gallery
“The Painter's Daughters chasing a Butterfly”, 1756 — National Gallery
“Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, 1785 — National Gallery of Art
“Musidora”, 1784 — National Gallery
“Lady Alston”, 1761 — Louvre
“Mrs Siddons”, 1785 — National Gallery
“The Market Cart”, 1786 — National Gallery
“Giovanna Baccelli”, 1782 — Tate
“Queen Charlotte (1744-1818)”, 1781 — Royal Collection
“Elizabeth and Mary Linley”, 1772 — Dulwich Picture Gallery
“John Montagu, 1718-92, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 1st Lord of the Admiralty”, 1783 — Royal Museums Greenwich
“The Harvest Wagon”, 1767 — Barber Institute of Fine Arts
“Portrait of Mary, Countess Howe”, 1764 — Kenwood House
“Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield”, 1777 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“The Watering Place”, 1777 — National Gallery
“Self-portrait”, 1758 — National Portrait Gallery
“The Baillie Family”, 1784 — National Gallery
“Gypsy Encampment, Sunset”, 1779 — National Gallery
“Maria, Lady Eardley (1743-1794)” — Nationalmuseum
“Romantic Landscape with Sheep at a Spring”, 1783 — Royal Academy of Arts
“The Artist’s Daughter Mary”, 1777 — National Gallery
“Portrait of Ann Ford (later Mrs.Philip Thicknesse)”, 1760 — Cincinnati Art Museum
“Portrait of Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)”, 1776 — International Museum and Library of Music
“The Mall in St. James's Park”, 1783 — Frick Collection
“Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thoma”, 1779 — Dulwich Picture Gallery
“Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated”, 1748 — Gainsborough's House
“Isabella,Viscountess Molyneux, later Countess of Sefton”, 1769 — Walker Art Gallery
“Country Cart Crossing a Ford”, 1786 — Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service
“George III (1738-1820)”, 1780–1781 — Royal Collection
“David Garrick”, 1770 — National Portrait Gallery
“Commodore the Hon. Augustus Hervey, later Vice-Admiral, and 3rd Earl of Bristol (1724-1779)”, 1767 — National Trust
“Edward Vernon”, 1753 — National Portrait Gallery
“Admiral Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes”, 1783

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