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Thomas Gainsborough Landscape in Suffolk oil painting


Landscape in Suffolk
Painting ID::  58896
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough
Painting: Landscape in Suffolk
Introduction: Landscape in Suffolk (1748)
   
   
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Gainsborough Sunset oil painting


Sunset
Painting ID::  58898
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough
Painting: Sunset
Introduction: Sunset (1760)
   
   
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Gainsborough Two Daughters with a Cat oil painting


Two Daughters with a Cat
Painting ID::  58903
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough
Painting: Two Daughters with a Cat
Introduction: Two Daughters with a Cat (c. 1759)
   
   
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Gainsborough The Artist Daughters, Molly and Peggy oil painting


The Artist Daughters, Molly and Peggy
Painting ID::  58905
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough
Painting: The Artist Daughters, Molly and Peggy
Introduction: The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy (1760)
   
   
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Gainsborough Gainsborough Daughter Mary oil painting


Gainsborough Daughter Mary
Painting ID::  58906
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough
Painting: Gainsborough Daughter Mary
Introduction: Gainsborough`s Daughter Mary (1777)
   
   
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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     1727-1788 British Thomas Gainsborough Locations English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was the contemporary and rival of Joshua Reynolds, who honoured him on 10 December 1788 with a valedictory Discourse (pubd London, 1789), in which he stated: If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of Art, among the very first of that rising name. He went on to consider Gainsborough portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures within the Old Master tradition, against which, in his view, modern painting had always to match itself. Reynolds was acknowledging a general opinion that Gainsborough was one of the most significant painters of their generation. Less ambitious than Reynolds in his portraits, he nevertheless painted with elegance and virtuosity. He founded his landscape manner largely on the study of northern European artists and developed a very beautiful and often poignant imagery of the British countryside. By the mid-1760s he was making formal allusions to a wide range of previous art, from Rubens and Watteau to, eventually, Claude and Titian. He was as various in his drawings and was among the first to take up the new printmaking techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. Because his friend, the musician and painter William Jackson (1730-1803), claimed that Gainsborough detested reading, there has been a tendency to deny him any literacy. He was, nevertheless, as his surviving letters show, verbally adept, extremely witty and highly cultured. He loved music and performed well. He was a person of rapidly changing moods, humorous, brilliant and witty. At the time of his death he was expanding the range of his art, having lived through one of the more complex and creative phases in the history of British painting. He painted with unmatched skill and bravura; while giving the impression of a kind of holy innocence, he was among the most artistically learned and sophisticated painters of his generation. It has been usual to consider his career in terms of the rivalry with Reynolds that was acknowledged by their contemporaries; while Reynolds maintained an intellectual and academic ideal of art, Gainsborough grounded his imagery on contemporary life, maintaining an aesthetic outlook previously given its most powerful expression by William Hogarth. His portraits, landscapes and subject pictures are only now coming to be studied in all their complexity; having previously been viewed as being isolated from the social, philosophical and ideological currents of their time, they have yet to be fully related to them. It is clear, however, that his landscapes and rural pieces, and some of his portraits, were as significant as Reynolds acknowledged them to be in 1788. . Related Artists to Thomas Gainsborough : | George Dawe | vlaminck | Bernat Martorell | Joanna Mary Boyce | Bryson Burroughs |

 

 

 

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