Thomas gainsborough

Art historian James Hamilton believes Thomas Gainsborough hid three phallic symbols in a portrait of Robert Andrews and his wife Frances at their estate in Sudbury, Suffolk.

Mary, Contessa of Howe, Thomas Gainsborough, 1763-4

The National Portrait Gallery introduces us to Thomas Gainsborough’s colourful family in a beautifully realised exhibition

Gainsborough's daughters Mary and Margaret were baptised in February 1750 and August 1751. Mary appears to be about nine or ten years old, and Margaret about eight or nine. Gainsborough had moved with his family from Ipswich to Bath in the autumn of 1759 and this work may therefore have been painted in Bath rather than in Ipswich. The painting is unfinished, but the outlines of a cat whose tail is being pulled can be seen on the lap of the elder girl. [Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 62.9 cm]…

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The painting, which took the artist less than an hour to paint, was restored for the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition opening in London this week

The eighteenth-century British master Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is celebrated for his portraiture and for his depictions of rural landscapes.

by Terry Riggs © Tate Britain / The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, the fifth son of a cloth merchant. He was apprenticed at the age of thirteen to a London silversmith, and was taught by Hubert Gravelot, a French book-illustrator. By 1745 he had established his own studio in London. He married Margaret Burr in 1746, and by 1748 had taken up residence in Suffolk.

Owned by the Huntington Library in California, Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy has traveled to the National Gallery in London.

The Painter’s Daughters Chasing a Butterfly by Thomas Gainsborough, c.1756. © The National Gallery, London. Henry Vaughan Bequest, 1900. LONDON .- The National Portrait Gallery London is to bring together for the first time all twelve surviving portraits...