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Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, northeast London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951.
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
This is a list of films made by the British production company Gainsborough Pictures and its parent company Gaumont British between 1924 and 1950. The Gainsborough brand was first used in 1924, although several films had previously been made by the company's founders under a different name.
TitleRelease DateDirectorApril 1924May 1924July 1924Graham CuttsJuly 1924George A. Cooper1727 - 1788. Image: Detail from Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter, about 1748. Gainsborough was, with Reynolds (his main rival), the leading portrait painter in England in the later 18th century.
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.
Collection. Thomas Gainsborough. An image of Thomas Gainsborough's Self-portrait (c. 1759). On loan from the National Portrait Gallery, 2022. Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88) was one of the most fashionable portrait painters of his day and a pioneer of British landscape painting.
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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.
