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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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2020-05-15

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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2020-05-15

Gainsborough’s final key melodrama Jassy (1947) is today’s film. , 11:30am. Superb cast; Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price and brilliant Technicolor cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth (2001, Cabaret, Superman). Check out the German poster!

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2020-05-14

This is one of Gainsborough’s most beautiful portraits. It’s of Elizabeth Linley, Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1785/7). The artist constantly sought to integrate nature into his portraits & in this example he achieved that superbly.

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2020-05-05

Thomas Gainsborough’s “Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield” (1777-78)

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2020-04-15

Gainsborough’s portrait shows Elizabeth Linley, a soprano singer who left her career behind to support her husband Richard Sheridan, a prominent politician, playwright, and orator.

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2020-04-13

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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2020-02-23

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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2020-02-23

The artist had a circle of intellectual friends including Goldsmith, Fox, Johnson & Kauffman. This contrasts with Gainsborough’s many musical friends & fondness for the Demi-Monde. Ms Monckton (1777-8) & Mrs Abington (1771) demonstrate his depiction of women as sexual objects.

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2020-02-23

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)

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2020-01-30

Madurai in Raspberry, part of our Renaissance - The Grand Tour collection which nods to Gainsborough’s past but with a clear eye on the future.A lovely archive design with a gentle flowing pattern.

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2019-02-12

'Gainsborough’s ‘Blue boy’ by Susan Sloman. http://t.co/225kmOciVD (April 2013)

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2015-08-28