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The portrait is one of the earliest known work by 18th-century British painter Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough painting bought for £2,600 could sell at auction for £50,000 Skip to main content
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]
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.
Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk is a 1748 landscape painting by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London, which bought it in 1875.The title has been used since 1828 and derives from a 1790 print of a Gainsborough work, though it is unproven whether the church tower in the background can be identified with that at Great Cornard, Suffolk.
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated is an oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough , from 1748. It is in the collection of Gainsborough's House .
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 ...
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770. Oil on canvas 70 in × 48 in (180 cm × 120 cm) Pinkie owes part of its notability to its association with the Gainsborough portrait The Blue Boy. According to Patricia Failing, author of Best-Loved Art from American Museums, "no other work by a British artist enjoys the fame of The Blue Boy."
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 ...