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Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough nació en Sudbury, Suffolk, en 1727. Desde temprana edad mostró grandes habilidades artísticas, por lo que a los trece años fue enviado a estudiar a Londres con el pintor y grabador francés Hubert François Gravelot, quien había sido discípulo del gran pintor francés Antoine Watteau.
14 de ago. de 2020 · He died on Antigua in 1779. In c.1784 Gainsborough painted The Baillie Family, which was bequeathed to the Gallery by Alexander Baillie in 1857, and is now in Tate (N00789). In 1768 Gainsborough painted a portrait of writer Ignatius Sancho (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa), when he was employed as a valet by George Brudenell, the Duke of ...
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’.
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 ...
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.
