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The portrait and landscape painter, Thomas Gainsborough is considered one of the most important British artists of the late 18th century. Born at Sudbury, Suffolk, Gainsborough was the youngest son of a cloth merchant.
- British
- May 14, 1727
- Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
- August 2, 1788
Gainsborough’s achievements as a portrait painter are recorded through several head-and-shoulder portraits and outdoor conversation pieces from his early Suffolk period; images of aristocratic patrons in their finery from his Bath period; and large-scale portraits produced at the height of his career in London.
Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield (1777–78), J. Paul Getty Museum. His later pictures are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. During the 1770s and 1780s Gainsborough developed a type of portrait in which he integrated the sitter into the landscape.
Jun 5, 2019 · Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) Birmingham Museums Trust. Consequently, complex forms such as the shirt ruffles worn by Lord Bagot in the portrait in Birmingham, or the figures in the early landscape in Edinburgh, are created with a minimum of effort and a breathtaking certainty.
Known for his elegant full length portraits of British society figures, often depicted in front of elaborate landscapes, Thomas Gainsborough also developed a category of painting called "fancy pictures" that are romanticized landscape paintings of rustic rural figures.
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A pupil of the French illustrator and draftsman Hubert Gravelot, Gainsborough was intimately involved with avant-garde rococo art and design, and seems to have assisted Francis Hayman on his genre paintings for the decoration of Vauxhall Gardens.
