1895
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Margaret Gainsborough, copied from Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of his two daughters, Mary and Margaret (ca.1758) in the Victoria and Albert Museum is a 1895 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted this watercolour around 1895. She copied a portrait by Thomas Gainsborough of his two daughters, Mary and Margaret, from about 1758. The painting now lives at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Potter studied and copied artworks at the V&A often. She used what she learned to write and illustrate books like *The Tale of Peter Rabbit*. Her copies helped her understand old art techniques. Look up the artist Beatrix Potter next.
A watercolour and pencil drawing by Beatrix Potter depicts a young girl copied from the right-hand figure in Thomas Gainsborough’s 1758 portrait of his daughters, Mary and Margaret, held in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A faint pencil outline of another girl’s hand resting on the subject’s head suggests a partial copy of Mary Gainsborough, who appears on the left in the original painting. The drawing reflects Potter’s practice of studying museum collections, including works by Gainsborough, whose paintings she examined closely.
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Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( BEE-ə-triks), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.
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