100 Great Artists

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1760

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1774

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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH

B()rR in SUtlbury.

ron"f a ,!JIb,.,.

and a painu,.

Sm' '" Londikl 1lJ

ftllllyart. "'"nli"

,-lITi" '" rt Illlj""

''''/mJing

mgrtn·.,-rand

Jur"1"'inr<n

ilIarri" b,;,-",

ilIarK"'rn BIl"

and w,· up r1Iuli.

in Ipndtb

Binh </ daugbu,.

Mary

Binh" dnugb,,.,.

Marga'"

Family,"""" to

Ba,b for por<raj,

co,",";"i.",

Potu/ding ,"nn,,"

ofLmdonl fillyal

A au/",'Y

P"mily ,"0'..,' to

L(J(IOOR

B'KinJ ""'"<rotl!

c(J",mirriOTlf for tb,

royal family

Toun LtJ:,

Dirtri". Fi,i"

A",t.""1'

R<tim frum

AcatkmYllfrr

dj"'gr"'f''''''

.t~r banging

OJ''''!,Il,,,,,-in

L""don

The Ib .... ·est Wagon (1767)

C(Jnfi",d to t(f"~'1I, GainrlxirlJUgb </tnt drn;, cantliN,! ,"oiM /lllItkap<>", lip

in hi, ,,,,di .. /-I, c"m, '" Ilppr«illU Ruk", and 'k Duuh mll'u,-!-injl"n/a

can '" d'UfUd b.,." in lb. jlumry"f /i", and ,b, "al, </ til. h«d! IT"" Th,

group an 'Il< can '""1 h< /mud OR Rahm, D"se<:nt from the ems<

T

hom'" Cain,l,oruugh,.."lS a f()un<~ng ]" jming to 1',J<tr.its and hit upon the hapI'''

memhe, of Lon(k,n's Ro),al Academ)" ",,,~,in,,ion of po'ing dientS on thei, ""mtry

togethe, ",ith Josh ... Rqr.,lds, Both CStt"'S, ",hieh also .lIowed him to ,iew thei, an

we,e ,c"""plished po"nit p.inters hut ",lIccrions,

Re),nold. mo(lelled himself on Rcml>r.ndt, C .. inshomugh'. "",, 'e to London in 1774

whe,eos ('.:t in.horough, h1l;n g fi,st ,tudied ottrlC",d the attention of C"'0'W lll. Liking hi.

W~tt.,.~u and V.n Rui"hd, h"'" me • <1 .... liC1"'d info,m.lity .nd "!(JlY s}"np"hics in ",!ual

admin:, ofV~n D)d. mC1Sure, the king a.ked him n, p.int the my:il

Like m. ny ani"s, G ain,b.:)(ough su!:."ined t.mily, I'l'p.<sing the officio I Coun p.in"" wI-.:,

to the t),"UHl}, of soeiety p()(tnitu",.! Ie wrote happened n, heJoshu. RLynolds. The old ri,'al.

to. friend who,", "ife's ponrait he had .hady were « ..... 'neil .... l" G.in,huruugh's final illne~,

bcglD1: '! ha,,, no OftL'TlCf l"omi",<1 myself the ",hen he famously cried fro", hi. 1,,,1: 'We.n:

Pleosu", uf sitting down tt, [fini'h] it hut S<JI"e all going to Hea"en and Van D}'d is of

c()n~"md,,1 ugly <TC1OJ'" ()( ",her ha,'e p(,,'d the c(."p.ny.'

thei,! leads in my w'1yand hind",d me',

No wonder he .. 'os in demand, his

«,,,a,lahlc .hili'}' to ""hie,,,, a lilene,,> with

'pon"'nei,}' and fn:shncs. h.d httn legcr>da,y

since I. ,}'hood. Funhe,m"'e , G ain,l)()ruugh

",uld "'n(Ie, an)' "'Xlure of fuh,ic, fmm muslin

to s"in. IlowL~'cr, he >tiD pn:h::rr<>1 bnd'C1pe

The Blue Boy (lITO)

Th< boy ir Joolltb"" Burrall, til< ",n" a frimd"f

,b, anir" By drming bim in Q rui, """in,

GIlinrlxirollgb i, P"Ying bomllg' to lim Oyd:; and

by muing ir a ,ui, "hi"" b, i, cbaOmging

Rry""Id, ':.'00, in OM "bi, di"",,,ur, dmllud rba!

'Ib, main ma«" a pictttr, "",Id not Iv hi",'