Artist
Daniel Gardner
British, 1750–1805
Daniel Gardner was a British Romanticism painter. 8 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings. Daniel Gardner was born in Kendal.
Daniel Gardner (1750 – 8 July 1805) was an English painter, best known for his work as a portraitist. He established a fashionable studio in Bond Street in London, specializing in small scale portraits in pastel, crayons or gouache, often borrowing Reynolds' poses. By some critics Gardner is regarded as a notable artist who, however, was not an accurate draughtsman if it came to figure work especially to facial construction in some of his pastels.
For others, on the other hand, it is this special looseness or facile elegance which represents the uniqueness of Gardner's style, and in which they see an anticipation of impressionism.
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