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Her father, Thomas Gainsborough was a painter. On the other hand, her mother, Margaret Burr was the illegitimate daughter of Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort. [4] In 1752, when Mary was two, her family moved to Ipswich, England. Although, her father's commissions for portraits did increase, [4] they moved again in 1759, heading for Bath ...
They reached the sea, but she died on 26 June 1792, near Hyères, aged just 35. [2] [7] Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) "The Housemaid". When criticized that Mary's beauty came partially from her fancy clothes, Gainsborough ardently disagreed and made a point of sketching Mary in simple maid clothes.
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 ]
Mrs. Caulfield, wife of the second son of the first Earl of Charlesmont wrote:- "I have heard today of the sale of the beautiful portrait of Mrs. Sheridan by Gainsborough, which I have gased at so often over the library fireplace at Delapré , and that it bought £3,000. Baron Rothschild being the purchaser.
The sitter is Maria Marow Gideon nee Wilmot, later Lady Eardley (1743–1794), the daughter of judge John Eardley Wilmot and his wife Sarah Rivett. In December, 1766 she married Sir Sampson Gideon, who became a member of Parliament soon after, and in 1789 was elevated to the Irish peerage to become Lord Eardley with a name from her father's ...
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 ...
Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas is a portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, originally painted as a single portrait of Mrs Moody around 1779–80 as a commission from her new husband Samuel Moody. She died in 1782 and the children are thought to have been added in 1784 or 1785.
Grace Dalrymple Elliott (c. 1754 – 16 May 1823) was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy resident in Paris during the French Revolution.She was an eyewitness to events detailed in her memoirs, Journal of my life during the French Revolution (Ma Vie sous la Révolution) published posthumously in 1859.