Artist
Thomas Gainsborough
United Kingdom
Thomas Gainsborough is an United Kingdom Rococo painting painter. 142 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum, most of them oil paintings.
Thomas Gainsborough (; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker who specialised in portrait and landscape painting. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he was one of the most important British artists of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.
Works by Thomas Gainsborough
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
William Yelverton Davenport
Francis Basset, Lord de Dunstanville
John, 4th Earl of Darnley
Mrs. Paul Cobb Methuen
The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham
Master John Heathcote
Queen Charlotte
Wooded Upland Landscape
Frances Susanna, Lady de Dunstanville
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir
Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice De Lancey, 1746/47–1832)
Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819)
Mountain Landscape with Bridge
Miss Catherine Tatton
Mrs. John Taylor
Portrait of George Pitt, First Baron Rivers
John Hobart (1723–1793), 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Pechell (1724–1800)
Seashore with Fishermen
A Boy with a Cat—Morning
Portrait of Mary Wise
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