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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 ]
Mary Fischer (née Gainsborough; 31 January 1750 – 2 July 1826) was the eldest and first-born daughter of English painter Thomas Gainsborough and his wife, Margaret Burr. She suffered from a Mental disorder , and was prone to fits of mental aberrations.
Mary was the youngest daughter of Amos Meredith or Meredyth of Henbury, Cheshire, and his wife, the former Joanna Cholmondeley. Her brother William was an MP and became 3rd Baronet Meredith in 1752, on the death of his grandfather.
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 ...
Her younger sister Louisa was married to Lord Stormont, while her brother William, 1st Earl Cathcart were also painted by Gainsborough. The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham, National Gallery of Art between 1775 and 1777. It was Mary's looks that caused a stir when Gainsborough exhibited her full-length portrait at the Royal Academy in London in 1777.
Maria, Lady Eardley is an oil on canvas by the English artist, Thomas Gainsborough, painted around the time of her marriage in 1766, according to British art historian, Ellis Waterhouse, in “Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough,” The Volume of the Walpole Society 33 (1948 –1950): 34.
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The Portrait of a Lady in Blue, [1] or Woman in Blue, [2] is an oil-on-canvas portrait of an unknown woman, executed in the late 1770s or early 1780s by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough during his fifteen-year stay in Bath, Somerset