Thomas Gainsborough
(1727-1788), Portrait and landscape painterSitter in 8 portraits
Artist associated with 268 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'.
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after Thomas Gainsborough
chromolithograph, 1910 (circa 1770-1775)
NPG D36043
published by The Medici Society Ltd, after Thomas Gainsborough
chromolithograph, published 1911
NPG D40244
by and published by John Jones, after Thomas Gainsborough
mezzotint, published 30 May 1783 (circa 1773-1775)
NPG D19524
William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (Lord Shelburne)
by and published by Francesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Gainsborough
stipple engraving, published 1787
NPG D20263
by and published by William Ward, after Thomas Gainsborough
mezzotint, published 1 January 1797 after a work of 1785-1787
NPG D49671
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
by Thomas Hodgetts, after a painting attributed to Thomas Gainsborough
mezzotint, published 1819
NPG D8227
Georgiana Cavendish (née Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire
published by The Medici Society Ltd, after Thomas Gainsborough
chromolithograph, published 1910, based on a work of 1782-1783
NPG D49758
Related People
- Gainsborough Dupont (nephew)
- Mary Fischer (née Gainsborough) (daughter)
- Margaret Gainsborough (née Burr) (wife)
- Margaret Gainsborough (daughter)
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