Wall Street Journal: ‘Gainsborough’s Family Album’ Review: Personal Portrait of the Artist
NJ.com: Fine Arts: ‘Gainsborough’s Family Album’ on exhibit at Princeton University Art Museum
Fine Arts: ‘Gainsborough’s Family Album’ on exhibit at Princeton University Art Museum
British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) is said to have been one of the most important painters of the 18th century. Forty-four portraits of his family members are currently on view at The ...
Thomas Gainsborough (/ 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] He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette ...
Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture explores the relationship between works by period-defining English artist Thomas Gainsborough and fashion, a concept and industry that touched nearly every aspect of British society in the eighteenth century. The artist’s painted images were subject to the same forces of fashion as the people they depict.
Visit Gainsborough and the surrounding area: The historic market town offers a wealth of places to visit, attractions and activities
Thomas Gainsborough 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). As he became famous and his sitters fashionable, he adopted a more formal manner