Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Henry Wise Painting ID:: 40948 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-465354.jpg
Portrait of Henry Wise mk158
1758/9
Thomas Gainsborough Ox Cart by the Bands of a Navigable River Painting ID:: 40950 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-867656.jpg
Ox Cart by the Bands of a Navigable River mk158
c.1758
Thomas Gainsborough An Extensive River Landscape with Cattle and a Drover and Sailing Boats in the distance Painting ID:: 40951 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-556689.jpg
An Extensive River Landscape with Cattle and a Drover and Sailing Boats in the distance mk158
c.1757-59
Thomas Gainsborough The Shepherd Boy Painting ID:: 40953 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-386388.jpg
The Shepherd Boy mk158
c.1757-59
Thomas Gainsborough Margaret Gainsborough Gleaning Painting ID:: 40954 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-466853.jpg
Margaret Gainsborough Gleaning mk158
c.1758
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of a Young Woman Painting ID:: 40955 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-748582.jpg
Portrait of a Young Woman mk158
c.1759
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of William Wollaston Painting ID:: 40956 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-647489.jpg
Portrait of William Wollaston mk158
c.1759
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Robert Nugent,Lord Clare Painting ID:: 40957 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-994975.jpg
Portrait of Robert Nugent,Lord Clare mk158
1759
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Uvedale Tomkins Price Painting ID:: 40958 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-225548.jpg
Portrait of Uvedale Tomkins Price mk158
c.1760
Thomas Gainsborough Self-Portrait Painting ID:: 40959 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-858477.jpg
Self-Portrait mk158
c.1759
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Mrs Margaret Gainsborough Painting ID:: 40960 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-228896.jpg
Portrait of Mrs Margaret Gainsborough mk158
c.1759
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Ann Ford Painting ID:: 40961 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-983559.jpg
Portrait of Ann Ford mk158
1760
Thomas Gainsborough The Lady-s Last Stake Painting ID:: 40962 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-779975.jpg
The Lady-s Last Stake mk158
1759
Thomas Gainsborough George Pitt,First Lord Rivers Painting ID:: 40963 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-263238.jpg
George Pitt,First Lord Rivers mk158
1769
Thomas Gainsborough Isabella,Viscountess Molyneux Painting ID:: 40964 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-942696.jpg
Isabella,Viscountess Molyneux mk158
1769
Thomas Gainsborough Lady in Blue Painting ID:: 41062 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-267927.jpg
Lady in Blue mk159
1770s
Oil on canvas
76x64cm
Thomas Gainsborough Mrs.Grace Dalrymply Elliott Painting ID:: 41348 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-349399.jpg
Mrs.Grace Dalrymply Elliott mk161
Oil on canvas
Thomas Gainsborough Mr. and Mr.s Andrews Painting ID:: 42734 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-675824.jpg
Mr. and Mr.s Andrews MK169
ca. 1749
oil Paint on cloth 69.8x119cm
Thomas Gainsborough Cornard Wood,Near Sudbury,Suffolk Painting ID:: 43294 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-584989.jpg
Cornard Wood,Near Sudbury,Suffolk mk170
1748
Oil on canvas
121.9x154.9cm
Thomas Gainsborough The Maket Cart Painting ID:: 43295 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-395585.jpg
The Maket Cart mk170
1786
Oil on canvas
184.2x153cm
Thomas Gainsborough Mr.and Mrs.William Hallett Painting ID:: 43296 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-884556.jpg
Mr.and Mrs.William Hallett mk170
1785
Oil on canvas
236.2x179.1cm
Thomas Gainsborough Mr and Mrs. Andrews Painting ID:: 43297 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-457638.jpg
Mr and Mrs. Andrews mk170
circa 1750
Oil on canvas
69.8x119.4cm
Thomas Gainsborough Mrs.Siddons Painting ID:: 43298 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-796926.jpg
Mrs.Siddons mk170
1785
Oil on canvas
126.4x99.7cm
Thomas Gainsborough Sarah Siddons Painting ID:: 44572 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-835532.jpg
Sarah Siddons mk173
1785
Oil on canvas
125.7x100.3cm
Thomas Gainsborough The three Eldest Princesses Painting ID:: 44601 new16/Thomas Gainsborough-484626.jpg
The three Eldest Princesses mk173
1784
Oil on canvas
129.5x179.7cm
Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of artist-s Wife Painting ID:: 48667 new18/Thomas Gainsborough-868726.jpg
Portrait of artist-s Wife mk191
about 1778
77x64.5cm
Thomas Gainsborough Detail of Portrait of artist-s Wife Painting ID:: 48668 new18/Thomas Gainsborough-455527.jpg
Detail of Portrait of artist-s Wife mk191
Oil on canvas
Thomas Gainsborough The Harvest wagon Painting ID:: 50852 new18/Thomas Gainsborough-546243.jpg
The Harvest wagon mk216
Thomas Gainsborough The Honourable mas graham mars Graham was one of the many society beauties Gainsborough painted in order to make a living Painting ID:: 50859 new18/Thomas Gainsborough-278787.jpg
The Honourable mas graham mars Graham was one of the many society beauties Gainsborough painted in order to make a living mk216
1727-1788
British
Thomas Gainsborough Locations
English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was the contemporary and rival of Joshua Reynolds, who honoured him on 10 December 1788 with a valedictory Discourse (pubd London, 1789), in which he stated: If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English School, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of Art, among the very first of that rising name. He went on to consider Gainsborough portraits, landscapes and fancy pictures within the Old Master tradition, against which, in his view, modern painting had always to match itself. Reynolds was acknowledging a general opinion that Gainsborough was one of the most significant painters of their generation. Less ambitious than Reynolds in his portraits, he nevertheless painted with elegance and virtuosity. He founded his landscape manner largely on the study of northern European artists and developed a very beautiful and often poignant imagery of the British countryside. By the mid-1760s he was making formal allusions to a wide range of previous art, from Rubens and Watteau to, eventually, Claude and Titian. He was as various in his drawings and was among the first to take up the new printmaking techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. Because his friend, the musician and painter William Jackson (1730-1803), claimed that Gainsborough detested reading, there has been a tendency to deny him any literacy. He was, nevertheless, as his surviving letters show, verbally adept, extremely witty and highly cultured. He loved music and performed well. He was a person of rapidly changing moods, humorous, brilliant and witty. At the time of his death he was expanding the range of his art, having lived through one of the more complex and creative phases in the history of British painting. He painted with unmatched skill and bravura; while giving the impression of a kind of holy innocence, he was among the most artistically learned and sophisticated painters of his generation. It has been usual to consider his career in terms of the rivalry with Reynolds that was acknowledged by their contemporaries; while Reynolds maintained an intellectual and academic ideal of art, Gainsborough grounded his imagery on contemporary life, maintaining an aesthetic outlook previously given its most powerful expression by William Hogarth. His portraits, landscapes and subject pictures are only now coming to be studied in all their complexity; having previously been viewed as being isolated from the social, philosophical and ideological currents of their time, they have yet to be fully related to them. It is clear, however, that his landscapes and rural pieces, and some of his portraits, were as significant as Reynolds acknowledged them to be in 1788.