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 Landschaft in Suffolk oil painting


Landschaft in Suffolk
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 66 x 95 cm Rahmenmaße: 95 x 124 x 11 cm
Painting ID::  70868
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Landschaft in Suffolk
Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 66 x 95 cm Rahmenmaße: 95 x 124 x 11 cm
   
   
     

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Ritt zum Markt oil painting


Ritt zum Markt
Date Deutsch: um 1769 English: c. 1769 Dimensions Deutsch: 122 X 147 cm
Painting ID::  71958
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Ritt zum Markt
Date Deutsch: um 1769 English: c. 1769 Dimensions Deutsch: 122 X 147 cm
   
   
     

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Ritt zum Markt oil painting


Ritt zum Markt
Date Deutsch: um 1769 English: c. 1769 Dimensions Deutsch: 122 X 147 cm
Painting ID::  72032
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Ritt zum Markt
Date Deutsch: um 1769 English: c. 1769 Dimensions Deutsch: 122 X 147 cm
   
   
     

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas The watermill oil painting


The watermill
Unknown date Source oil on canvas cyf
Painting ID::  97175
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
The watermill
Unknown date Source oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     

GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas Patio Mediterraneo oil painting


Patio Mediterraneo
circa 1890(1890) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 45 X 25 cm cyf
Painting ID::  97199
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas
Patio Mediterraneo
circa 1890(1890) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 45 X 25 cm cyf
   
   
     

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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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