Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788 British Thomas Gainsborough Locations English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was the contemporary and rival of Joshua Reynolds, who honoured him on 10 December 1788 with a valedictory Discourse (pubd London, 1789), in which he stated: If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of Art, among the very first of that rising name. He went on to consider Gainsborough portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures within the Old Master tradition, against which, in his view, modern painting had always to match itself. Reynolds was acknowledging a general opinion that Gainsborough was one of the most significant painters of their generation. Less ambitious than Reynolds in his portraits, he nevertheless painted with elegance and virtuosity. He founded his landscape manner largely on the study of northern European artists and developed a very beautiful and often poignant imagery of the British countryside. By the mid-1760s he was making formal allusions to a wide range of previous art, from Rubens and Watteau to, eventually, Claude and Titian. He was as various in his drawings and was among the first to take up the new printmaking techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. Because his friend, the musician and painter William Jackson (1730-1803), claimed that Gainsborough detested reading, there has been a tendency to deny him any literacy. He was, nevertheless, as his surviving letters show, verbally adept, extremely witty and highly cultured. He loved music and performed well. He was a person of rapidly changing moods, humorous, brilliant and witty. At the time of his death he was expanding the range of his art, having lived through one of the more complex and creative phases in the history of British painting. He painted with unmatched skill and bravura; while giving the impression of a kind of holy innocence, he was among the most artistically learned and sophisticated painters of his generation. It has been usual to consider his career in terms of the rivalry with Reynolds that was acknowledged by their contemporaries; while Reynolds maintained an intellectual and academic ideal of art, Gainsborough grounded his imagery on contemporary life, maintaining an aesthetic outlook previously given its most powerful expression by William Hogarth. His portraits, landscapes and subject pictures are only now coming to be studied in all their complexity; having previously been viewed as being isolated from the social, philosophical and ideological currents of their time, they have yet to be fully related to them. It is clear, however, that his landscapes and rural pieces, and some of his portraits, were as significant as Reynolds acknowledged them to be in 1788.
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Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Sarah Kirby and John Joshua Kirby oil painting


Portrait of Sarah Kirby and John Joshua Kirby
ca. 1751-1752 Oil on canvas 768 ?? 637 mm (30.24 ?? 25.08 in) cjr
Painting ID::  77156 		Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of Sarah Kirby and John Joshua Kirby
ca. 1751-1752 Oil on canvas 768 ?? 637 mm (30.24 ?? 25.08 in) cjr
   
   
     
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of the Artist's Daughters oil painting


Portrait of the Artist's Daughters
Probably painted in the early 1760s Oil cjr
Painting ID::  77173 		Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of the Artist's Daughters
Probably painted in the early 1760s Oil cjr
   
   
     
Thomas Gainsborough Self-portrait oil painting


Self-portrait
1754(1754) Oil on canvas 58 ?? 49 cm (22.8 ?? 19.3 in) cjr
Painting ID::  77174 		Thomas Gainsborough
Self-portrait
1754(1754) Oil on canvas 58 ?? 49 cm (22.8 ?? 19.3 in) cjr
   
   
     
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Grace Elliott oil painting


Portrait of Grace Elliott
1778(1778) Oil on canvas 234.3 ?? 153.7 cm (92.2 ?? 60.5 in) cjr
Painting ID::  77315 		Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of Grace Elliott
1778(1778) Oil on canvas 234.3 ?? 153.7 cm (92.2 ?? 60.5 in) cjr
   
   
     
Thomas Gainsborough Woman in Blue oil painting


Woman in Blue
Oil on canvas 76 ?? 64 cm (29.9 ?? 25.2 in) cjr
Painting ID::  77571 		Thomas Gainsborough
Woman in Blue
Oil on canvas 76 ?? 64 cm (29.9 ?? 25.2 in) cjr
   
   
     
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     1727-1788 British Thomas Gainsborough Locations English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was the contemporary and rival of Joshua Reynolds, who honoured him on 10 December 1788 with a valedictory Discourse (pubd London, 1789), in which he stated: If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of Art, among the very first of that rising name. He went on to consider Gainsborough portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures within the Old Master tradition, against which, in his view, modern painting had always to match itself. Reynolds was acknowledging a general opinion that Gainsborough was one of the most significant painters of their generation. Less ambitious than Reynolds in his portraits, he nevertheless painted with elegance and virtuosity. He founded his landscape manner largely on the study of northern European artists and developed a very beautiful and often poignant imagery of the British countryside. By the mid-1760s he was making formal allusions to a wide range of previous art, from Rubens and Watteau to, eventually, Claude and Titian. He was as various in his drawings and was among the first to take up the new printmaking techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. Because his friend, the musician and painter William Jackson (1730-1803), claimed that Gainsborough detested reading, there has been a tendency to deny him any literacy. He was, nevertheless, as his surviving letters show, verbally adept, extremely witty and highly cultured. He loved music and performed well. He was a person of rapidly changing moods, humorous, brilliant and witty. At the time of his death he was expanding the range of his art, having lived through one of the more complex and creative phases in the history of British painting. He painted with unmatched skill and bravura; while giving the impression of a kind of holy innocence, he was among the most artistically learned and sophisticated painters of his generation. It has been usual to consider his career in terms of the rivalry with Reynolds that was acknowledged by their contemporaries; while Reynolds maintained an intellectual and academic ideal of art, Gainsborough grounded his imagery on contemporary life, maintaining an aesthetic outlook previously given its most powerful expression by William Hogarth. His portraits, landscapes and subject pictures are only now coming to be studied in all their complexity; having previously been viewed as being isolated from the social, philosophical and ideological currents of their time, they have yet to be fully related to them. It is clear, however, that his landscapes and rural pieces, and some of his portraits, were as significant as Reynolds acknowledged them to be in 1788.

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