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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Mr and Mrs William Hallett (“The Morning Walk”), 1785

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Hester, Countess of Sussex, and Her Daughter, Lady Barbara Yelverton, 1771

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Elizabeth Wrottesley, later Duchess of Grafton, 1764

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Sarah, Lady Innes, ca. 1757

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of The Hon. Frances Duncombe, ca. 1777

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow, 1770s

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Miss Catherine Tatton, 1786

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Maria, Lady Eardley

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Frances Susanna, Lady de Dunstanville, ca. 1786

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Mrs. Peter William Baker, 1781

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to Thomas Gainsborough, born in 1727. Painter of our recently restored poster child, "The Blue Boy" (1770), Gainsborough was a man of many talents; a portrait and landscape painter, a printmaker, and a draftsman. Here's a selection of his portraits from the collection.

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Mrs Mary Robinson (Perdita), 1781

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Mary Hartop, Countess of Howe, 1764

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4/4 Mary & Margaret Gainsborough in the 1770s, as proper young ladies. With puffy hair to complement fluffy dog! By Thomas Gainsborough, whose day is today.

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Elizabeth Ann Linley, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1754-1792), 1787

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Mrs. Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), 1785

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In his final years Gainsborough created some of the most elegant English portraits of the 18th C. His Morning Walk (1785), Mrs Sheridan (1785-6) & Duke of Kent (c1787) are supreme examples of an artist who understood beauty & human frailty

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As the artist matured his brushwork became more fluid & he used longer brushes which gave his work a sense of movement. His portraits of the Duchess of Beaufort (c1775), Mrs Graham (c1775) & of his nephew & assistant Gainsborough DuPont (c1775) are ravishing masterpieces

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Gainsborough’s first love was always landscape painting & he snook it into his portraits where he could. Peasants Returning from Market (1767-8) & the Harvest Wagon (1767). He continued to study & learn from Old Masters such as Rubens’ Descent from the Cross (1760s)

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Gainsborough’s greatest portraits from the 1750s are of his family. Miss Gainsborough Gleaning (1756-9), the Painter’s Daughters (1758) & the Artist’s Wife (c1758) attest to his growing maturity as a portraitist, as well as his love for his family

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