1895
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Mary 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, depicting Boy, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter copied a painting by Thomas Gainsborough for this watercolor. She usually drew animals, but here she tried a portrait. The work shows a boy in a pose from the 1700s. Potter studied art at the Victoria and Albert Museum as a young artist. She copied old paintings to learn. Her famous books came later. Look at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour and pencil drawing by Beatrix Potter from 1895, this work reproduces the left-hand figure from Thomas Gainsborough’s circa 1758 portrait of his daughters, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The subject, likely the elder daughter Mary, is depicted as a young girl around ten years old in a seated pose. Potter’s copy closely follows Gainsborough’s original composition, reflecting her study of museum collections, including eighteenth-century costume details.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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