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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]
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London.Today it is one of his most famous works, but it remained in the family of the sitters until 1960 and was very little known before it appeared in an exhibition in Ipswich in 1927, after which it was regularly requested for other exhibitions in Britain and abroad, and ...
The etching, 1764, based on the lost painting, published by John Boydell. Thomas Gainsborough was the first British artist to make a major study of the subject of Romani people, [1] [2] beginning with two paintings in the 1750s, the first of which he never finished, and the second of which is now lost, but survives in an etching by Gainsborough.
Portrait of Lord Mansfield; Thomas Gainsborough. Portrait of Admiral Rodney; Portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire; Portrait of Lord Cornwallis; Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich; Thomas Jones – A Storm – Prospero, Miranda and Caliban Spying the Shipwrecked Ferdinand; Joseph Lange – Unfinished portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his ...
Philip James de Loutherbourg is a portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough of the French-born painter and set designer Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. [ 1 ] Born in Strasbourg , Loutherbourg settled in London in 1770 and became noted for his set designs at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane as well as his landscape paintings ...
This is a Toad-themed reproduction of Gainsborough's oil painting The Blue Boy. [19] The Blue Boy painting is a heavily-used prop in the 1929 Laurel and Hardy comedy Wrong Again. The painting is also referenced in the movie Coraline as a portrait in the Pink Palace's hearth room.
On 18 March 2017, the painting was attacked by a man with a sharp object. [3] [4] The painting received two scratches of about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and 65 cm (2 ft 2 in) long in the incident, crossing in the lower half of the figure of Mrs Hallett, but the canvas was not pierced. [5] After 10 days of restoration, the painting went back on display. [5]
Thomas Gainsborough, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield, 1777 or 1778. 221 x 157.5 cm. Private collection since 1959 The portrait was held in the collection of the Stanhope family, passing by inheritance from its completion until 1923, when it was acquired by Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, sixth earl of Carnarvon. [7]