Only Connect - David Garrick <> Karl Abel
How are these sitters connected?
David Garrick
by Thomas Gainsborough
1770
NPG 5054
Karl Friedrich Abel
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1765
NPG 5081
The connection:
When the composer, impresario and viola da gamba player Carl Friedrich Abel died, the artist of this portrait, Thomas Gainsborough, wrote: ‘I shall never cease looking up to heaven …. in hopes of getting one more glance of the man I loved from the moment I heard him touch the string.’
Find out more about Garrick connections with co-curator Peter Sheppard Skaerved