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Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA ( / ˈɡeɪnzbərə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [1] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [2]
Thomas Gainsborough (baptized May 14, 1727, Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng.—died August 2, 1788, London) was a portrait and landscape painter, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. Some of his early portraits show the sitters grouped in a landscape ( Mr. and Mrs. Andrews , c. 1750).
Thomas Gainsborough. 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.
Thomas 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.
Thomas Gainsborough. British Painter. Born: May 14, 1727 - Sudbury, England. Died: August 2, 1788 - London, England. Movements and Styles: The Rococo. , Realism. , Romanticism. , Neoclassicism. , British Art. , Grand Manner Portraiture.
Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest of the nine children of John Gainsborough and the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs; he was baptized in Sudbury on 14 May 1727. He attended Sudbury Grammar School, of which his maternal uncle was the master. He took to sketching at an early age, and when he was thirteen ...
Home. Collection. Thomas Gainsborough. An image of Thomas Gainsborough's Self-portrait (c. 1759). On loan from the National Portrait Gallery, 2022. Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88) was one of the most fashionable portrait painters of his day and a pioneer of British landscape painting.
