Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Portrait and landscape painter
Sitter in 8 portraits
Artist associated with 262 portraits
Landscape and portrait painter. Gainsborough worked in his native Sudbury and then Ipswich until 1759 when he moved to Bath and established a fashionable portrait practice. Settling in London in 1774, he was Joshua Reynolds's only real rival as a portrait painter. Gainsborough quarrelled with the Royal Academy over the exhibition of his pictures; he was highly-strung in personality, a lively letter writer and devoted to music; Garrick said 'his cranium is so crammed with genius of every kind that it is in danger of bursting on you like a steam engine overcharged'.
by Thomas Gainsborough
oil on canvas, circa 1758-1759
On display in Room 12 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4446
by Francesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Gainsborough
black and red crayon with pencil and grey wash on paper, circa 1797 (1787-1788)
NPG 1107
by Francesco Bartolozzi, published by John Boydell, published by Josiah Boydell, after Thomas Gainsborough
stipple engraving, published 1 January 1798 (1787-1788)
NPG D34265
by Henry Meyer, published by T. Cadell & W. Davies, after John Jackson, after Thomas Gainsborough
stipple engraving, published 27 November 1810 (1787-1788)
NPG D34266
by Henry Meyer, published by T. Cadell & W. Davies, after John Jackson, after Thomas Gainsborough
stipple engraving, published 27 November 1810
NPG D14138
by James Scott, after Thomas Gainsborough
mezzotint, 1850s-1880s (1787-1788)
NPG D2411
by Francesco Bartolozzi, published by John Boydell, and published by Josiah Boydell, after Thomas Gainsborough
stipple engraving, published 1 January 1798 (1787-1788)
NPG D20059
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
Barber, Institute of Fine Arts, Edgbaston, Midlands
Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, suffolf
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Sudley House, Liverpool, Merseyside
Waddesdon Manor-the Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire
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