Thomas Gainsborough
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727-born) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.
He and his colleague Sir Joshua Reynolds are regarded as one of the most influential British artists of the second half of the nineteenth century.
He carved quickly, and his mature years' output are characterized by a light palette and simple strokes.
Gainsborough, despite being a prolific portrait painter, gained more pleasure from his landscapes.
He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school.
Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.
Career
Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, the Duke of Beaufort's illegitimate daughter, who had received a £200 annuity on her. The artist's debut, which was mainly made up of landscape paintings, was not well-received. He returned to Sudbury in 1748-1700 and concentrated on painting portraits. Gainsborough painted a portrait of The Rev. when she was still in Suffolk. In a Landscape, John Chafy Playing a Violoncello (c.1750–1752; Tate Gallery, London).
In 1752, he and his family, now including two children, Mary ("Molly") 1750-1826) and Margaret ("Peggy") moved to Ipswich, 1751-1820. Portrait commissions have increased, but portrait commissions have mainly been from local merchants and squires. He had to borrow against his wife's annuity. He painted a self-portrait during his stay in Ipswich, which is now on view in the National Portrait Gallery in London's permanent collection.
Gainsborough and his family immigrated to Bath in 1759, number 17 The Circus. He studied portraits by van Dyck and was eventually able to find a fashionable clientele. He began presenting work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London in 1761 (now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the first members); and from 1769 to the Royal Academy's annual exhibitions. The exhibitions helped him improve his image, and he was invited to become a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1769. His relationship with the academy was not straightforward, and he stopped showing his artwork in 1773.
Despite Gainsborough's increasing fame and success in painting portraits for fashionable people, he expressed indignation during his Bath time with the demands of such art that prevented him from pursuing his desired artistic passions. "I'm sick of Portraits and want to take my Viol da Gamba and walk away to some sweet Village where I can paint Landskips [landscapes] and enjoy the End of Life in quietness and ease," Gainsborough wrote in a letter to a friend in the 1760s. He talked to the men he had to deal with as patrons and admirers, as well as their pretences.
Gainsborough was so keen on a viola gamba player that he attended five of the instruments, three made by Henry Jaye and two by Barak Norman.
Gainsborough and his family immigrated to London in 1774 to live in Schomberg House, Pall Mall. In 1951, a commemorative blue plaque was added to the house. He started showing his paintings at the Royal Academy in 1777, including portraits of contemporary celebrities, such as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. For the next six years, exhibitions of his art have flourished. Gainsborough beganexperimenting with printmaking using the then-novel methods of aquatint and soft-ground etching.
Gainsborough created a style of portrait in which the sitter was integrated into the landscape in the 1770s and 1780s. Here's an example of this is his portrait of Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas (1746-1811), which can be seen at Waddesdon Manor. The sitter has withdrawn to a secluded and overgrown corner of a garden to read a letter, recalling the common representation of Melancholy. Gainsborough emphasized the connection between Mrs Douglas and her environment by painting the clouds behind her and the drapery billowing across her lap in the same silvery violet tones and swift bushstrokes. This portrait appeared in Schomberg House's first private exhibition in 1784.
Gainsborough painted a portrait of Johann Christian Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son. Padre Martini, Bach's former teacher, was assembling a series of portraits of musicians, and Bach asked Gainsborough to paint his portrait as part of the series. The portrait now hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery.
He painted King George III and Queen Charlotte's portraits in 1780 and then received other royal commissions. Molly, his daughter, was married to Johann Christian Fischer in February 1780, to Gainsborough's surprise as he learned that Fischer was developing a bond with Molly while continuing to flirt with Peach. Due to their discord and Fischer's deceit, Molly and Fischer's marriage lasted only 8 months.
Principal Painter Allan Ramsay died in 1784 and the King was forced to give over the job to Gainsborough's rival and Academy president, Joshua Reynolds. Gainsborough was the Royal Family's favorite painter, but it was not until recently that she stayed in Gainsborough that she became the Royal Family's favorite painter.
Gainsborough also painted landscapes in his later years. Richard Wilson was one of the founders of the eighteenth-century British landscape school, but he also worked with Reynolds to become Britain's most popular portraitist of the second half of the 18th century.
In his latest essays, William Jackson said of him, "to his closest friends, he was sincere and transparent, and that his heart was always open to every feeling of honor and kindness." Gainsborough did not enjoy reading, but letters sent to his friends in such a unique conversational style that could not be duplicated. "A collection of his letters would give the world as much originality and beauty as is ever traced in his paintings," Henry Bate-Dudley said of him.
Gainsborough's 1780s to assemble landscapes and then display them backlit on glass with what he described as a "howbox." With a reproduction transparency, the original box on display in the Victoria & Albert Museum is on display.
He died of cancer on August 2, 1788, at the age of 61. His last words, according to his daughter Peggy, were "van Dyck." He is laid to rest in the churchyard St. Anne's Church in Kew, Surrey (located on Kew Green). Joshua Kirby, a boy from Baltimore, wanted to be buried near his sister Joshua Kirby. Gainsborough Dupont, his uncle, and his niece were later interred with him. Johan Zoffany and Franz Bauer are both buried in the graveyard, coincidentally. An appeal is also underway to cover the cost of his tomb's restoration. After him, a street in Kew, Gainsborough Road, has been named.
