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  • Thomas Gainsborough
    May 14, 1727 - Aug 2, 1788
  • Portrait of an Unknown Man - Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. He preferred landscapes to portraits, and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.
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    Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology - University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Other paintings by Thomas Gainsborough:

Portrait of an Old Lady (also known as Elizabeth, Duchess of Kingston)
Portrait of an Old Lady (also known as Elizabeth, Duchess of Kingston)
Portrait of an Unknown Lady with a Blue Cloak
Portrait of an Unknown Lady with a Blue Cloak
Portrait of an Unknown Youth (The Pitminster Boy)
Portrait of an Unknown Youth (The Pitminster Boy)
Portrait of Ann Witham, Mrs. Philip Howard
Portrait of Ann Witham, Mrs. Philip Howard
Thomas GainsboroughGainsborough was, with Reynolds (his main rival), the leading portrait painter in England in the later 18th century. The feathery brushwork of his mature work and rich sense of colour contribute to the enduring popularity of his portraits. Unlike Reynolds, he avoids references to Italian Renaissance art or the Antique, and shows his sitters in fashionable contemporary dress.

He was a founding member of the Royal Academy, though he later quarrelled with it over the hanging of his pictures. He became a favourite painter of George III and his family.

He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the son of a wool manufacturer. He trained in London, and set up in practice in Ipswich about 1752. In 1759 he moved to Bath, a fashionable spa town, attracting many clients for his portraits. He settled in London in 1774. His private inclination was for landscape and rustic scenes, and his amusing letters record his impatience with his clients' demands for portraits.