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Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, northeast London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951.
This is a list of films made by the British production company Gainsborough Pictures and its parent company Gaumont British between 1924 and 1950. The Gainsborough brand was first used in 1924, although several films had previously been made by the company's founders under a different name. [1]
TitleRelease DateDirectorApril 1924May 1924July 1924Graham CuttsJuly 1924George A. CooperThomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century.
- British
- May 14, 1727
- Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
- August 2, 1788
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1727 - 1788. Image: Detail from Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter, about 1748. Gainsborough was, with Reynolds (his main rival), the leading portrait painter in England in the later 18th century.
After a short period on his own in London between about 1744 and 1748, during which he painted small-scale portraits and landscapes in the manner of Jan Wijnants and Jacob van Ruisdael, and married Margaret Burr, Gainsborough returned to his native Suffolk.
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A Boy with a Cat—Morning. Well-to-do art collectors of the eighteenth century enjoyed "fancy pictures" such as this, which provided an idealized and sentimental image of poor children. The model for this particular work, Jack Hill, was a local boy whom Gainsborough’s daughter considered adopting.
