GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
English Rococo Era/Romantic Painter, 1727-1788 English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was the contemporary and rival of Joshua Reynolds, who honoured him on 10 December 1788 with a valedictory Discourse (pubd London, 1789), in which he stated: 'If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of Art, among the very first of that rising name.' He went on to consider Gainsborough's portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures within the Old Master tradition, against which, in his view, modern painting had always to match itself. Reynolds was acknowledging a general opinion that Gainsborough was one of the most significant painters of their generation. Less ambitious than Reynolds in his portraits, he nevertheless painted with elegance and virtuosity. He founded his landscape manner largely on the study of northern European artists and developed a very beautiful and often poignant imagery of the British countryside. By the mid-1760s he was making formal allusions to a wide range of previous art, from Rubens and Watteau to, eventually, Claude and Titian. He was as various in his drawings and was among the first to take up the new printmaking techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. Because his friend, the musician and painter William Jackson (1730-1803), claimed that Gainsborough detested reading, there has been a tendency to deny him any literacy. He was, nevertheless, as his surviving letters show, verbally adept, extremely witty and highly cultured. He loved music and performed well. He was a person of rapidly changing moods, humorous, brilliant and witty. At the time of his death he was expanding the range of his art, having lived through one of the more complex and creative phases in the history of British painting. He painted with unmatched skill and bravura; while giving the impression of a kind of holy innocence, he was among the most artistically learned and sophisticated painters of his generation. It has been usual to consider his career in terms of the rivalry with Reynolds that was acknowledged by their contemporaries; while Reynolds maintained an intellectual and academic ideal of art, Gainsborough grounded his imagery on contemporary life, maintaining an aesthetic outlook previously given its most powerful expression by William Hogarth.

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Six studies of a cat oil painting


Six studies of a cat
310 x 447 mm
Painting ID::  43944
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Six studies of a cat
310 x 447 mm
   
   
     

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas the blue boy oil painting


the blue boy
1779 henry e, huntingdon art gallery, san marino
Painting ID::  64316
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
the blue boy
1779 henry e, huntingdon art gallery, san marino
   
   
     

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Tochter des Kunstlers oil painting


Tochter des Kunstlers
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 76 ?? 64,5 cm
Painting ID::  70541
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Tochter des Kunstlers
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 76 ?? 64,5 cm
   
   
     

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Thomas Graham oil painting


Thomas Graham
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 237 ?? 154 cm
Painting ID::  70685
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Thomas Graham
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 237 ?? 154 cm
   
   
     

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Portrat des Heneage Lloyd und seiner Schwester oil painting


Portrat des Heneage Lloyd und seiner Schwester
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 64 ?? 80 cm
Painting ID::  70740
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Portrat des Heneage Lloyd und seiner Schwester
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 64 ?? 80 cm
   
   
     

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     GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
     English Rococo Era/Romantic Painter, 1727-1788 English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was the contemporary and rival of Joshua Reynolds, who honoured him on 10 December 1788 with a valedictory Discourse (pubd London, 1789), in which he stated: 'If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of Art, among the very first of that rising name.' He went on to consider Gainsborough's portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures within the Old Master tradition, against which, in his view, modern painting had always to match itself. Reynolds was acknowledging a general opinion that Gainsborough was one of the most significant painters of their generation. Less ambitious than Reynolds in his portraits, he nevertheless painted with elegance and virtuosity. He founded his landscape manner largely on the study of northern European artists and developed a very beautiful and often poignant imagery of the British countryside. By the mid-1760s he was making formal allusions to a wide range of previous art, from Rubens and Watteau to, eventually, Claude and Titian. He was as various in his drawings and was among the first to take up the new printmaking techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. Because his friend, the musician and painter William Jackson (1730-1803), claimed that Gainsborough detested reading, there has been a tendency to deny him any literacy. He was, nevertheless, as his surviving letters show, verbally adept, extremely witty and highly cultured. He loved music and performed well. He was a person of rapidly changing moods, humorous, brilliant and witty. At the time of his death he was expanding the range of his art, having lived through one of the more complex and creative phases in the history of British painting. He painted with unmatched skill and bravura; while giving the impression of a kind of holy innocence, he was among the most artistically learned and sophisticated painters of his generation. It has been usual to consider his career in terms of the rivalry with Reynolds that was acknowledged by their contemporaries; while Reynolds maintained an intellectual and academic ideal of art, Gainsborough grounded his imagery on contemporary life, maintaining an aesthetic outlook previously given its most powerful expression by William Hogarth.

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