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Gainsborough, on the other hand, was a portrait painter and landscapist and remained aloof from any academic functions. Reynolds was knighted in 1769 and wrote art criticism and delivered lectures while Gainsborough never received sovereign recognition and wrote lively correspondence as his written legacy.
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds , [ 1 ] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [ 2 ]
Gainsborough's self-portrait of 1754. Thomas Gainsborough was about twenty-three when he painted Mr and Mrs Andrews in 1750. He had married the pregnant Margaret Burr and returned to Sudbury, Suffolk, his home town as well as that of the Andrews, after an apprenticeship in London with the French artist Hubert-François Gravelot, from whom he learnt the French rococo style.
The genre was also cultivated by Francis Hayman, Arthur Devis, and Thomas Gainsborough, perhaps the most typical and brilliant painter of the English Rococo. [45] Gainsborough also practiced pure landscape painting, where he developed a style of simplifying the scenery, of nonspecific and theatricalized description, and of altering its basic ...
Among the members of the St. Martin's Lane Academy were the engraver and book illustrator Hubert Gravelot; François Roubiliac, a French sculptor established in London; the painter Francis Hayman and his pupil, the very young Thomas Gainsborough who was employed by Gravelot; the Swiss-born artist and enameller George Michael Moser; the medallist Richard Yeo and the architect Isaac Ware.
Thomas Gainsborough, The Morning Walk (portrait of Mr and Mrs William Hallett), 1785 Fashion in the twenty years between 1775 and 1795 in Western culture became simpler and less elaborate. These changes were a result of emerging modern ideals of selfhood, [ 1 ] the declining fashionability of highly elaborate Rococo styles, and the widespread ...
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August 2 – Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait painter (born 1727) September 27 – Sir Robert Taylor, stonemason, sculptor, and architect (born 1714) September 30 – Matthäus Günther, German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era (born 1705)