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Thomas Gainsborough fue un pintor académico inglés. De hecho, fue él uno de los fundadores de la Royal Academy of Arts. Nacido en Suffolk, Gainsborough se marchó a Londres para estudiar arte donde conoció la moda francesa (el rococó sería su influencia mayor) y empezó a conocer la pintura de paisaje, que desarrollaría con asiduidad aunque no se vendía muy bien.
Thomas Gainsborough (baptized May 14, 1727, Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng.—died August 2, 1788, London) was a portrait and landscape painter, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. Some of his early portraits show the sitters grouped in a landscape ( Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, c. 1750). As he became famous and his sitters fashionable, he ...
Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest of the nine children of John Gainsborough and the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs; he was baptized in Sudbury on 14 May 1727. He attended Sudbury Grammar School, of which his maternal uncle was the master. He took to sketching at an early age, and when he was thirteen ...
Thomas Gainsborough died of cancer on August 2, 1788, at the age of 61. While on his deathbed he reconciled with Reynolds, his longtime rival. In a letter to him, the artist expressed his admiration and respect for the painter and his work. After his death, Reynolds wrote that the Royal Academy has lost ‘one of its greatest ornaments’.
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes.
17 de feb. de 2020 · En bref. Peintre phare de l’école anglaise du XVIII e siècle, Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788) est le portraitiste de la gentry, et plus encore de la famille royale. Pourtant, le paysage est sa véritable passion. Aîné de William Turner et de John Constable, admirateur et rival de Joshua Reynolds, il a été l’un des premiers ...
Biografia. Thomas Gainsborough nacque a Sudbury, nel Suffolk, il 14 maggio 1727.Figlio del mercante di tessuti John, e di Mary, sorella del reverendo Humphrey Burroughs, nonché fratello del ministro, inventore ed ingegnere Humphrey Gainsborough trascorse la fanciullezza insieme ai fratelli John e Humphrey in quella che oggi è la Gainsborough's House: già dai primi anni respirò un'atmosfera ...
