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On our Stories @NationalGallery today, for #CarersWeek2020, we're highlighting @childrensociety & their photographic exhibition #Hidden - rare & moving insights into stories & responsibilities of #YoungCarers today: https://t.co/gaW4iQILcq Also features three of our paintings👇
The other known double portraits of Margaret & Mary are: an elegant painting of the sisters as artists, dated c.1764 @WorcesterArt Museum (USA) and a glamorous full-length in an idealised landscape, dated c.1775, in a private collection (England) #MuseumsFromHome @NationalGallery
This acquisition adds to our Gainsborough family portraits @NationalGallery including two magical double portraits of Margaret & Mary (NG3812 & NG1811). There's another portrait of the sisters from late 1750s @V_and_A (pic 3) #collectionsunited @nat_collection #MuseumFromHome 2/
#OTD 1727, Thomas Gainsborough baptised, Sudbury, Suffolk. Leading portrait painter & famed for wonderful 'fancy pictures' & landscapes. My favourites are these @NationalGallery paintings of his daughters Mary & Margaret #MuseumFromHome #MuseumWeek #MuseumWeek2020 #TogethernessMW
#DidYouKnow In 1888 Isabel Constable gave to the nation paintings, sketches & drawings by her famous father John includ 'Cenotaph' @NationalGallery 'Flatford Mill' @Tate 'Salisbury Cathedral' @V_and_A & his palette @royalacademy #CollectionsUnited @nat_collection #MuseumFromHome
#MuseumFromHome Last of my selection of @NationalGallery paintings for #StGeorgesDay, showing #StGeorge & the dragon, by #GustaveMoreau, leading French Symbolist artist. Inspired by #Renaissance & #Byzantine #art, #Indian & #Persian #miniaturepainting https://t.co/vgiHT7IAUZ
#MuseumFromHome Another @NationalGallery painting for #StGeorgesDay, this time by #Tintoretto. The dramatic scene has #StGeorge arriving just in time, while the princess flees. It came into our collection in 1831, only 7 yrs after gallery was formed 2/ https://t.co/vL3B5cKDuC
#MuseumFromHome #OTD b. 1755, #Paris celeb artist Élizabeth Vigée Le Brun, portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. Here’s a short film w/ curator @FranWhitCoop & 2 glorious self-portraits @NationalGallery & @UffiziGalleries #art #arthistoryathome #arthistory https://t.co/NHYR2VWi0R
Born #OTD 1769, Thomas Lawrence, 4th President @royalacademy. 1st royal commission age 21, ‘Queen Charlotte’ @NationalGallery. Famed for brilliance & virtuosity e.g. ‘Lady Peel’ @frickcollection ’Pinkie’ @TheHuntington & ’Wellington’ @ApsleyHouse #MuseumsUnlocked #artinquarantine
#MuseumFromHome According to Kenneth Clark, director @NationalGallery during #WWII, most requested masterpieces for 'Painting of the Month' were #Titian (NG270) & #ElGreco 'Agony in Garden' (NG3476) #EasterWeekend #EasterSunday #Easter2020 #EasterAtHome https://t.co/GZu06hzPYg