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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Sebastiano Ceccarini (Italian, 1703-1783)

Portrait of a noble woman, c.1750s.

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Thomas died in 1788. He moved to Bath in the 1750s and quickly achieved prominence amongst all the portrait painters around the city. Find out more about him and his painting 'Thomas Rumbold and Son' in this video https://t.co/AXnjH4kBkg

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Even before Gainsborough, Philip Mercier painted “fancy paintings” inspired by Dutch genre paintings. After my recent tweets, can you now see the origins of sentimentalism & romanticism in these paintings from the 1740s & 1750s?


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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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Beloved vampire hunter Edwin,,,,
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Holy doctor from the 1750s who becomes unholy to purge vampires 🧛‍♂️
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pepemion Shepherd and glowing pepiana
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This is an adaptation of the work early masterpiece by Jean-Honoré Fragonard demonstrates his brilliant command . of the rococo pictorial idiom that was in its ascendancy in the 1750s
https://t.co/Y5x0v4gJke

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Studio / Workshop of François Boucher, French (1703 - 1770)

The Muse Clio, c.1750s.

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A Parisian, his talent was noted by the painter Lemoyne. He won the Prix de Rome in 1720 which was designed to allow talented students study there. Two youths & a dog (c1730-5), Young Woman (nd) & Water Mills (1750s)

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Studio / Workshop of François Boucher (1703 - 1770)

The Muse Clio, c. 1750s.

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Jean-Marc Nattier eschewed the trends of the 1750s to create a neoclassical-inspired fantasy. While the woman’s rosy blush and the embellishments of her dress are representative of Rococo style, the portrait shows a mythologized version of the woman.

https://t.co/vpqnMP3wb2

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I sort of have the beginnings of a 1750s Celtic low key magical AU, I have absolutely NO clue what I'm doing but DAMN, Mick really pulls these boots off. 😂

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This acquisition adds to our Gainsborough family portraits including two magical double portraits of Margaret & Mary (NG3812 & NG1811). There's another portrait of the sisters from late 1750s (pic 3) 2/

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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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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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Our for February celebrates pugs, a breed loved by Alice de Rothschild (1847-1922), who owned several of them. It’s a box, made in Dresden in the 1750s of amethystine quartz, gold and diamonds. It was made for snuff, a powder sniffed in pinches from the hand.

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