'Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you.'― Henry David Thoreau
Happy birthday to Thomas Gainsborough born on this day in 1727
"The Painter's Daughters chasing a Butterfly", probably 1756
By Thomas Gainsborough, R.A...

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Costa del sol
Actually just an excuse to draw cute girls holding hands 😳

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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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Charles Crokatt, William Keable playing the flute, and Peter Darnell Muilma, all looking extremely proper in a landscape. Lovely friendship portrait, an early work by Thomas Gainsborough. It's his birthday.

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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 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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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of Mary Hartop, Countess of Howe, 1764

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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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2/2 The artist's daughters in 1756, with little Margaret much distracted by a butterfly. Older Mary is curious but has more self-control! By Thomas Gainsborough, born OTD in 1727.

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The Lovers' Chronicle 14 May - reverence, verse by mac tag - art by Thomas Gainsborough - Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

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Baptised in 1727: English painter (1727-88)

Portrait of the Painters Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, ca. 1756

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Day 790 “The Cottage Girl” (1785) Thomas Gainsborough. The English painter Gainsborough was born on this day in 1727. The child in ragged clothing standing forlornly by a stream with a broken pitcher is one of his most celebrated ‘fancy pictures’.

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