In 1759, Gainsborough and his family moved to Bath. There, he studied portraits by van Dyck and was eventually able to attract a better-paying high society clientele. In 1761, he began to send work to theSociety of Artsexhibition in London (now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he wa...
He himself said, "I'm sick of portraits, and wish very much to take my viol-da-gam and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips (sic) and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease." This likeness of landscapes is shown in the way he merged the figures ...
This encyclopaedic show, which opens this month at the San Antonio Museum of Art, brings together such a motley collection of wonders that I left feeling that I had just returned from a whirlwind tour to far-off worlds, at once exotic and familiar....
It's what gets us out of bed in the morning. If we make money from it, even better.' Philip is not alone in the portrait business; his elder brother Anthony sells British portraits of all sorts at 173 New Bond Street. Two brothers, two very different styles. The scholarly Anthony and...
Crown, Patricia. 1984. "Portraits and Fancy Pictures by Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasting Images of Childhood," British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Volume 7, Number 2.Crown, P. (1984) `Portraits and Fancy Pictures by Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasting Images of Childhood', ...
Crown, Patricia. 1984. "Portraits and Fancy Pictures by Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasting Images of Childhood," British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Volume 7, Number 2.Crown, P. (1984) `Portraits and Fancy Pictures by Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasting Images of Childhood', ...
Focuses on the portrait paintings done by artist Thomas Gainsborough in the 1900s. Compositional and pictorial strategies used by Gainsborough to give life to a portrait; Gainsborough's professed pre...
Byline: BRIAN SEWELLIT is extraordinary that Thomas Gainsborough, born and long resident in Suffolk, the county of ugly women, should have developed such an eye for feminine beauty, grace and sensuality. The eye was not there at the beginning of his career: in his early portraits women were...
Crown, Patricia. 1984. "Portraits and Fancy Pictures by Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasting Images of Childhood," British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Volume 7, Number 2.Crown, P. (1984) `Portraits and Fancy Pictures by Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasting Images of Childhood', ...