Thomas Gainsborough Prints, Posters & Paintings Michelangelo Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. He remains popular in the sphere of British art. Gainsborough’s most famous paintings include Portrait of Mrs. Graham; Mary and Margaret: The Painter’s Daughters; William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen, known as The Morning Walk; and Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, display the unique individuality of his subjects. Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London (now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the earliest members); and from 1769 on, he submitted works to the Royal Academy’s annual exhibitions. He selected portraits of well-known or notorious clients in order to attract attention. Thomas Gainsborough is one of Britain’s most famous and best loved painters. Suffolk-born Gainsborough counts Mr and Mrs Andrews & The Blue Boy amongst his finest works and his career spanned the middle of the 18th century.

Indeed, he remains respected as one of the best portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. Gainsborough’s best known landscapes and portraits are available from this section, in the form of high quality handmade reproductions. More are added all the time, and each is available in any size required. Feel free to contact us for a quote. See below for a full list of famous Thomas Gainsborough paintings: William Wollaston Shepherd Boys with Dogs Fighting Linley Sisters Augustus John Third Earl of Briston Portrait Of Colonel John Bullock Lord Vernon Portrait of a Lady in Blue Carl Friedrich Abel Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher Elizabeth Wrottesley Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough This article is about the artist Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough is also the name of a small market town in Lincolnshire in England . Thomas Gainsborough Field Painter Thomas Gainsborough ( 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788 ) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. Gainsborough was born in 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England .

His father was a schoolteacher involved with the wool trade. At the age of fourteen he impressed his father with his pencilling skills so that he let him go to London to study art in 1740. In London he first trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot but eventually became associated with William Hogarth and his school. One of his mentors was Francis Hayman. In those years he contributed to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens. In the 1740s, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who settled a £200 annuity on the couple. The artist's work, then mainly composed of landscape paintings, was not selling very well. He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on the painting of portraits. Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748-49), in the National Gallery in London, is the best known painting of his Suffolk period. In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, moved to Ipswich .

Commissions for personal portraits increased, but his clientele included mainly local merchants and squires. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity. In 1759, Gainsborough and his family moved to Bath . There, he studied portraits by van Dyck and was eventually able to attract a better-paying high society clientele. In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London (now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the earliest members); and from 1769 on, he submitted works to the Royal Academy's annual exhibitions. He selected portraits of well-known or notorious clients in order to attract attention. These exhibitions helped him acquire a national reputation, and he was invited to become one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1769. His relationship with the academy, however, was not an easy one and he stopped exhibiting his paintings there in 1773. The Blue Boy, painted 1770 In 1774 , Gainsborough and his family moved to London to live in Schomberg House, Pall Mall.

In 1777 , he again began to exhibit his paintings at the Royal Academy, including portraits of contemporary celebrities, such as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. Exhibitions of his work continued for the next six years. In 1780 , he painted the portraits of King George III and his queen and afterwards received many royal commissions. This gave him some influence with the Academy and allowed him to dictate the manner in which he wished his work to be exhibited. However, in 1783, he removed his paintings from the forthcoming exhibition and transferred them to Schomberg House. In 1784, royal painter Allan Ramsay died and the King was obliged to give the job to Gainsborough's rival and Academy president, Joshua Reynolds. However Gainsborough remained the Royal Family's favourite painter. In his later years, Gainsborough often painted relatively simple, ordinary landscapes. With Richard Wilson, he was one of the originators of the eighteenth-century British landscape school; though simultaneously, in conjucntion with Joshua Reynolds, he was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century .

Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785) exemplifies Gainsborough's mature style. Mrs Thomas Hibbert, Neue Pinakothek Gainsborough painted more from his observations of nature (and human nature) than from any application of formal academic rules. The poetic sensibility of his paintings caused Constable to say, "On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes and know not what brings them." He himself said, "I'm sick of portraits, and wish very much to take my viol-da-gam and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips (sic) and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease." His most famous works, such as Portrait of Mrs. Graham; Mary and Margaret: The Painter's Daughters; William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen, known as The Morning Walk; and Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, display the unique individuality of his subjects. Gainsborough's only known assistant was his nephew, Gainsborough Dupont. He died of cancer on 2 August 1788 in his 62nd year. Trivia In Ghostbusters II ( 1989 ), Dr.

Janosz Poha exclaims to Peter Venkman, with heavy accent approximated, "Theees eeesn't Gainsborough's Blue Boy, ees Preeence Veego, Ruler of Carpathia and Moldavia!" His sitters tend to look rather similar, and supposedly when one client complained that the portrait did not resemble his wife at all, he told him not to worry, in a few years time no-one would know the difference. If he was painting a portrait of a woman (alone, not as a member of a couple) that he did not personally find attractive, he would paint a dog in the portrait. In Fiction Kitty (Paramount 1945) is a notable fictionl film about Gainsborough see Gainsborough has an important posthumous role in the alternate history novel The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove. In the alternate history depicted in the book, the 18th Century American colonists reached a compromise with the British government which averted the American War of Independence and let North America remain part of the British Empire in gthe 20th Century. In this world, Gainsborough painted a picture of King George III and George Washington signing on the historic compromise.

In later generations this picutre ("The Two Georges of the title) becomes a famous iconic symbol of the harmonious good relations between Btitiain and the North American Union, with copies of it to seen everywhere and its facsimile appearing on currency notes. The whole plot of the novel turns on its theft by terrorists and the efforts to recover it. Retrieved from " " This Wikipedia DVD Selection has a sponsor: SOS Children , and is a hand-chosen selection of article versions from the English Wikipedia edited only by deletion (see for details of authors and sources). The articles are available under the GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas - Artists Artists Type the name of the artist in the box below, click on create, away you go! GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Site Map » Artists » GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. His most famous works, such as 'Portrait of Mrs.

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Find out what you can do. General Wikidot.com documentation and help section. Wikidot.com Terms of Service - what you can, what you should not etc. Wikidot.com Privacy Policy. Magnificent Thomas Gainsborough Oil Painting, Landscape : Lot 6022 Auction ended on December 2nd, 2011 UTC Magnificent Thomas Gainsborough Oil Painting, Landscape Lot 6022 Details Magnificent and very rare painting atributted to the famous painter Thomas Gainsborough. The experts of the Bureau Art Gallery believe this is a unique painting with a very important historical value! *Free shipping for this painting worldwide. Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 Ð 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. His father was a weaver involved with the wool trade. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his pencilling skills so that he let him go to London to study art in 1740.

In London he first trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot but eventually became associated with William Hogarth and his school. One of his mentors was Francis Hayman. In those years he contributed to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens. In the 1740s, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who settled a £200 annuity on the couple. The artist's work, then mainly composed of landscape paintings, was not selling very well. He returned to Sudbury in 1748Ð1749 and concentrated on the painting of portraits. In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, moved to Ipswich. Commissions for personal portraits increased, but his clientele included mainly local merchants and squires. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity. Gainsborough painted more from his observations of nature (and human nature) than from any application of formal academic rules.

The poetic sensibility of his paintings caused Constable to say, "On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes and know not what brings them." He himself said, "I'm sick of portraits, and wish very much to take my viol-da-gam and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips (sic) and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease." His most famous works, such as Portrait of Mrs. Graham; Mary and Margaret: The Painter's Daughters; William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen, known as The Morning Walk; and Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, display the unique individuality of his subjects. Gainsborough's only known assistant was his nephew, Gainsborough Dupont.He died of cancer on 2 August 1788 in his 62nd year. Professional Data Work and Life Collaboration with HAYMAN Francis Met REYNOLDS Joshua Shipping & Payment 2. Shipping Methods: Will ship internationally (worldwide) using UPS, FEDEX, EMS EXPRESS and local shippers. For heavier items to other countries please contact us for further details. 2.1.

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In his last years, Gainsborough painted relatively simple landscapes and is credited (with Richard Wilson ) as the originator of the 18th century British landscape school. Gainsborough died of cancer in 1788 and was buried at St. Anne's Church, Kew . His later pictures are characterized by a light palette and easy strokes. Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield, 1777–1778 He painted quickly, and his later pictures are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. He preferred landscapes to portraits. William Jackson in his contemporary essays said of him 'to his intimate friends he was sincere honest and his heart was always alive to every feeling of honour and generosity but avoided the company of literary men, who were his aversion, but for a letter to an intimate friend he had few equals and no superior'.[2] Career Suffolk Margaret Burr (1728–1797), the artist's wife, c.

early 1770s Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury , Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woollen goods, and his wife, the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs.[3] He spent his childhood at what is now Gainsborough's House , on Gainsborough Street (he later resided there, following the death of his father in 1749). The original building still survives and is now a dedicated House to the his life and art. When he was still a boy he impressed his father with his drawing and painting skills and he was allowed to go to London to study art in 1740, but it is now known that he almost certainly had painted heads and small landscapes by the time he was ten years old, including a miniature self-portrait.[4] In London he trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot [3] but became associated with William Hogarth and his school. He assisted Francis Hayman in the decoration of the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens ,[3] and contributed to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children .

In 1746, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort , who settled a £200 annuity on them. The artist's work, then mostly consisting of landscape paintings, was not selling well. He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on painting portraits . In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, moved to Ipswich . Commissions for personal portraits increased, but his clientele included mainly local merchants and squires. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity. Bath The Blue Boy (1770). The Huntington, California. In 1759, Gainsborough and his family moved to Bath , living at number 17 The Circus .[5] There, he studied portraits by van Dyck and was eventually able to attract a fashionable clientele. In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London (now the Royal Society of Arts , of which he was one of the earliest members); and from 1769 he submitted works to the Royal Academy 's annual exhibitions.

He selected portraits of well-known or notorious clients in order to attract attention. The exhibitions helped him acquire a national reputation, and he was invited to become a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1769. His relationship with the academy was not an easy one and he stopped exhibiting his paintings in 1773. London In 1774, Gainsborough and his family moved to London to live in Schomberg House , Pall Mall .[3][6] A commemorative blue plaque was put on the house in 1951.[7] In 1777, he again began to exhibit his paintings at the Royal Academy, including portraits of contemporary celebrities, such as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. Exhibitions of his work continued for the next six years. In 1780, he painted the portraits of King George III and his queen and afterwards received many royal commissions. This gave him some influence with the Academy and allowed him to dictate the manner in which he wished his work to be exhibited. However, in 1783, he removed his paintings from the forthcoming exhibition and transferred them to Schomberg House.

In 1784, royal painter Allan Ramsay died and the King was obliged to give the job to Gainsborough's rival and Academy president, Joshua Reynolds . Gainsborough remained the Royal Family's favorite painter, however. At his own express wish, he was buried at St. Anne's Church, Kew , where the Family regularly worshipped. In his later years, Gainsborough often painted relatively simple, ordinary landscapes. With Richard Wilson , he was one of the originators of the eighteenth-century British landscape school; though simultaneously, in conjunction with Sir Joshua Reynolds, he was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. As a letter writer Henry Bate-Dudley said of him 'a selection of his letters would offer the world as much originality and beauty as is ever traced in his paintings'.[8] He died of cancer on 2 August 1788 at the age of 61 and is interred at St. Anne's Church, Kew , Surrey (located on Kew Green). He is buried next to Francis Bauer , the famous botanical illustrator.

As of 2011, an appeal is underway to pay the costs of restoration of his tomb.[9] Technique Girl with Pigs, 1781-2, said by Sir Joshua Reynolds to be "the best picture he ever painted".[10] Gainsborough was noted for the speed with which he applied paint, and he worked more from observations of nature (and of human nature) than from application of formal academic rules. The poetic sensibility of his paintings caused Constable to say, "On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes and know not what brings them." Gainsborough said, "I'm sick of portraits, and wish very much to take my viol-da-gam and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips (sic) and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease." His liking for landscapes is shown in the way he merged figures of the portraits with the scenes behind them. His later work was characterised by a light palette and easy, economical strokes.[11] His most famous works, Portrait of Mrs.

Graham; Mary and Margaret: The Painter's Daughters; William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen, known as The Morning Walk; and Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, display the unique individuality of his subjects. Joshua Reynolds considered Girl with Pigs ' the best picture he (Gainsborough) ever painted or perhaps ever will'.[10] Gainsborough's only known assistant was his nephew, Gainsborough Dupont .[3] In the last year of his life he collaborated with John Hoppner in painting a full-length portrait of Lady Charlotte Talbot .

In 2011, Gainsborough's portrait of Miss Read (Mrs Frances Villebois) was sold by Michael Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray , for a record price of £6.5M.[12] She was a matrilineal descendant of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York , and the mitochondrial DNA descent through which the remains of Richard III of England were identified in 2013 passes through her and her daughter Harriet:[13][14] In TV, fiction and music Kitty (1945) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway . In the song " 20th Century Man " from the Kinks ' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies , Ray Davies lists Gainsborough as one of the painters he prefers to "your smart modern painters". Two potential works by Gainsborough were investigated in the third series of Fake or Fortune? ^ Fulcher, George William, Life of Thomas Gainsborough , London 1856 ^ Jackson, William The Four Ages including essays on various subjects Cadell & Davies, London 1798 ^ a b c d e "Thomas Gainsborough".

National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 10 December 2011. ^ Conrad, Stephen, ‘Thomas Gainsborough's First Self-portrait’, in The British Art Journal, Vol. XII, No. 1, Summer 2011, pp. 52-59 ^ Greenwood, Charles (1977). Famous houses of the West Country. Bath: Kingsmead Press. pp. 84–86. ^ Plaque #2 on Open Plaques. ^ "Thomas Gainsborough Blue Plaque". openplaques.org. Retrieved 13 May 2013. ^ Woodall, Mary , Introduction to The Letters of Thomas Gainborough, Cupid Press , London, 1963 ^ "Restoration of Thomas Gainsborough's tomb". Richmond Guardian (London). 7 March 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011. ^ a b Willes, F.W. Letters of Joshua Reynolds , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1929 ^ Birmingham Museum of Art (2010). Birmingham Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection. London: Giles. p. 80.

^ Hardman, Robert (17 July 2011). "Why I'm swapping my £25m house for a cottage". Daily Mail (London). ^ ^ Turi E. King et al. (2014). "Figure 1: Genealogical links between Richard III and modern-day relatives who participated in this study.". Nature Communications. Further reading Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough, Томас Гейнсборо, Tomass Geinsboro Categories: Set cemetery Person Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver in Suffolk. He left home in 1740 to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth. In 1746, he married Margaret Burr, and they became parents of two daughters. He moved to Bath in 1759 where fashionable society patronised him, and he began exhibiting in London.

In 1769, he became a founding member of the Royal Academy, but his relationship with the organization was thorny and he sometimes withdrew his work from exhibition. Gainsborough moved to London in 1774, and painted portraits of the king and queen, but the king was obliged to name as royal painter Gainsborough's rival Joshua Reynolds. In his last years, Gainsborough painted relatively simple landscapes and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th century British landscape school. Gainsborough died of cancer in 1788 and is interred at St. Anne's Church, Kew, Surrey. He painted quickly and his later pictures are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. He preferred landscapes to portraits. Cecil Kellaway portrayed Gainsborough in the 1945 film Kitty. Life and work Suffolk Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woollen goods, and his wife, the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs.

When he was 13 he impressed his father with his drawing skills and he was allowed to go to London to study art in 1740. In London he trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot but became associated with William Hogarth and his school. He assisted Francis Hayman in the decoration of the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens, and contributed to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Margaret Burr (1728–1797), the artist's wife, c. early 1770s In 1746, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who settled a £200 annuity on them. The artist's work, then mainly composed of landscape paintings, was not selling well. He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on painting portraits. In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, moved to Ipswich. Commissions for personal portraits increased, but his clientele included mainly local merchants and squires. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity.

Bath The Blue Boy (1770). The Huntington, California. In 1759, Gainsborough and his family moved to Bath, living at number 17 The Circus. There, he studied portraits by van Dyck and was eventually able to attract a fashionable clientele. In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London (now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the earliest members); and from 1769 he submitted works to the Royal Academy's annual exhibitions. He selected portraits of well-known or notorious clients in order to attract attention. The exhibitions helped him acquire a national reputation, and he was invited to become a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1769. His relationship with the academy was not an easy one and he stopped exhibiting his paintings in 1773. London In 1774, Gainsborough and his family moved to London to live in Schomberg House, Pall Mall. A commemorative blue plaque was put on the house in 1951.

In 1777, he again began to exhibit his paintings at the Royal Academy, including portraits of contemporary celebrities, such as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. Exhibitions of his work continued for the next six years. Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785). In 1780, he painted the portraits of King George III and his queen and afterwards received many royal commissions. This gave him some influence with the Academy and allowed him to dictate the manner in which he wished his work to be exhibited. However, in 1783, he removed his paintings from the forthcoming exhibition and transferred them to Schomberg House. In 1784, royal painter Allan Ramsay died and the King was obliged to give the job to Gainsborough's rival and Academy president, Joshua Reynolds. Gainsborough remained the Royal Family's favourite painter, however. At his own express wish, he was buried at St. Anne's Church, Kew, where the Family regularly worshipped. In his later years, Gainsborough often painted relatively simple, ordinary landscapes.

With Richard Wilson, he was one of the originators of the eighteenth-century British landscape school; though simultaneously, in conjunction with Sir Joshua Reynolds, he was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He died of cancer on 2 August 1788 at the age of 61 and is interred at St. Anne's Church, Kew, Surrey (located on Kew Green). He is buried next to Francis Bauer, the famous botanical illustrator. As of 2011, an appeal is underway to pay the costs of restoration of his tomb. Technique Mrs Thomas Hibbert, c. 1780s. Neue Pinakothek. Gainsborough was noted for the speed with which he applied paint, and he worked more from observations of nature (and of human nature) than from application of formal academic rules.

The poetic sensibility of his paintings caused Constable to say, "On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes and know not what brings them." Gainsbrough said, "I'm sick of portraits, and wish very much to take my viol-da-gam and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips (sic) and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease." His liking for landscapes is shown in the way he merged figures of the portraits with the scenes behind them. His later work was characterised by a light palette and easy, economical strokes. His most famous works, Portrait of Mrs. Graham; Mary and Margaret: The Painter's Daughters; William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen, known as The Morning Walk; and Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, display the unique individuality of his subjects. Gainsborough's only known assistant was his nephew, Gainsborough Dupont. In the last year of his life he collaborated with John Hoppner in painting a full length portrait of Charlotte, Countess Talbot.

In 2011, Gainsborough's portrait of Miss Read (Mrs William Villebois) was sold by Viscount Cowdray for a record price of £6.5M. In fiction and music Kitty (1945) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway. In the song 20th Century Man from the Kinks' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies, Ray Davies lists Gainsborough as one of the painters he prefers to "your smart modern painters." Gallery of selected works Colonel John Bullock (c. 1780) Landscape in Suffolk (1748), Kunsthistorisches Museum Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, (c. 1748–1750) The Painter`s Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, (1756) Two Daughters with a Cat (c. 1759) The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy (1760) Portrait of the Composer Carl Friedrich Abel with his Viola da Gamba (c.

1765) John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll (1767) The Harvest Wagon (c. 1767) Portrait of John Needham, 10th Viscount Kilmorey, (c. 1768), Tate Lady in Blue (c. 1770), Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Linley Sisters, (1772), Dulwich Picture Gallery Johann Christian Bach, (1776), Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale Gainsborough`s Daughter Mary (1777) The Honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M.P., (c. 1778–80), oil on canvas, The Detroit Institute of Arts Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1783), National Gallery of Art The Harvest Wagon (c. 1784) Mrs. Sarah Siddons (1785), National Gallery Mrs.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1785–86), National Gallery of Art Cottage Girl with Dog and pitcher (1785) Thomas Gainsborough T Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – died 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. Life and work Suffolk Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. His father was a weaver involved with the wool trade. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let him go to London to study art in 1740. In London he first trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot but eventually became associated with William Hogarth and his school. One of his mentors was Francis Hayman. In those years he contributed to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens. In the 1740s, Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who settled a £200 annuity on the couple.

The artist's work, then mainly composed of landscape paintings, was not selling very well. He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on the painting of portraits . In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, moved to Ipswich. Commissions for personal portraits increased, but his clientele included mainly local merchants and squires. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity. Bath In 1759, Gainsborough and his family moved to Bath. There, he studied portraits by van Dyck and was eventually able to attract a better-paying high society clientele. In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London (now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the earliest members); and from 1769 on, he submitted works to the Royal Academy 's annual exhibitions. He selected portraits of well-known or notorious clients in order to attract attention. These exhibitions helped him acquire a national reputation, and he was invited to become one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1769.

His relationship with the academy, however, was not an easy one and he stopped exhibiting his paintings there in 1773. London In 1774, Gainsborough and his family moved to London to live in Schomberg House, Pall Mall. In 1777, he again began to exhibit his paintings at the Royal Academy, including portraits of contemporary celebrities, such as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. Exhibitions of his work continued for the next six years. In 1780, he painted the portraits of King George III and his queen and afterwards received many royal commissions. This gave him some influence with the Academy and allowed him to dictate the manner in which he wished his work to be exhibited. However, in 1783, he removed his paintings from the forthcoming exhibition and transferred them to Schomberg House. In 1784, royal painter Allan Ramsay died and the King was obliged to give the job to Gainsborough's rival and Academy president, Joshua Reynolds, however Gainsborough remained the Royal Family's favorite painter. At his own express wish, he was buried at St. Anne's Church, Kew, where the Family regularly worshipped.

In his later years, Gainsborough often painted relatively simple, ordinary landscapes. With Richard Wilson, he was one of the originators of the eighteenth-century British landscape school; though simultaneously, in conjunction with Joshua Reynolds, he was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He died of cancer on 2 August 1788 at the age of 61 and is interred at Kew Parish Church, Surrey (located in Kew Gardens). He is buried next to Francis Bauer, the famous botanical illustrator. Technique Gainsborough painted more from his observations of nature (and human nature) than from any application of formal academic rules. The poetic sensibility of his paintings caused Constable to say, "On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes and know not what brings them." He himself said, "I'm sick of portraits, and wish very much to take my viol-da-gam and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips (sic) and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease." His most famous works, such as Portrait of Mrs.

Graham; Mary and Margaret: The Painter's Daughters; William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen, known as The Morning Walk; and Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, display the unique individuality of his subjects. Gainsborough's only known assistant was his nephew, Gainsborough Dupont. In the last year of his life he collaborated with John Hoppner in painting a full length portrait of Charlotte, Countess Talbot. In Fiction Kitty (1945) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway. Gainsborough has an important posthumous role in the alternate history novel The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove. (Wikipedia)

Question: Which painter's most famous works include "Portrait of Mrs. Graham", "Mary and Margaret: The Painter's Daughters", "William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen", known as "The Morning Walk", and "Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher"?
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough