Dr Robert Bohanさんのイラストまとめ

Another feature of Gainsborough’s art is his fondness for painting intelligent hounds. Pomeranian & Puppy (c1777), Isabelle Franks (1775-8) & The Artist’s Wife, Margaret Burr (c1778)

Dupont was the painter’s assistant as well as being his nephew. Like his uncle there is great intelligence behind his eyes. Gainsborough Dupont (1770s), Mrs Graham (c1775) & The Artist’s Daughter, Mary (1777)

His Blue Boy is world famous & the subject of many unverified tales (some of which were created by the dealer who sold it to an American collector). The Artist’s Daughters (1770), The Blue Boy (c1770) & Six Studies of a Cat (c1770)

If you look up debonair in the Oxford English Dictionary this Portrait of Sir Edward is surely found there! Sir Edward Turner (1762), Hilly Landscape (1763) & Mary Little (1763)

We can chart the growth of the two Gainsborough girls through his art in magnificent images. Quin, a notorious bawd, famous actor & character was the artist’s best friend. He was from Clare. The Artist’s Daughters (1759-61), James Quin (1760-3) & the Artist’s Daughters (1763-4)

In his letters Gainsborough was a man who loved his two daughters & this is clear in his portraits of them too. I love how one is teasingly holding her sisters head up for this double portrait. Susanna Gardiner (1758-9), The Painter’s Daughters (c1758) & Elizabeth Jackson (1760)

His portrait of the sour Andrews is one of his most famous. The landscape depicted is true to nature & you can tell that the sitter he empathised with most was the dog. Mr & Mrs Andrews (1748-9), Holywells Park, Ipswich (c1750) & Pool in the Woods (c1750-5)

The challenge for Gainsborough was that the only commercial avenue for an English artist in his time was portraiture. Nevertheless he painted faces with aplomb. Clayton Jones (1744-5), Conversation in a Park (c1745-6) & Portrait of the Artist, his Wife & Daughter (c1748)

Here’s another group of various sketches by him. They have a sparkling immediacy as they were painted outside & so the light is more reflective of reality & the images more realistic

He died in 1837, aged 60. Nowadays it is his oil sketches, which were done directly from nature, & his cloud studies which are most respected. They have a vivacity & truthfulness which is outstanding. View of Highgate (c1834), Stonehenge (1836) & View from Highgate Hill (nd)