Thomas Gainsborough
1727–1788 · Rococo
Thomas Gainsborough was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker who specialised in portrait and landscape painting. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he was one of the most important British artists of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.
40 paintings
- Sarah Dupont (c. 1777–79)
- Portrait of Mary Wise (c. 1774)
- Portrait of George Pitt, First Baron Rivers (1769)
- Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir (c. 1782–1783)
- John Wilkinson (1775)
- Margaret Gainsborough, née Burr (1728-1798) (1758)
- The Marsham Children (1787)
- Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield (1777)
- Portrait of James Christie (1730 - 1803) (1778)
- Portrait of William Anne Hollis, 4th Earl of Essex, Presenting a Cup to Thomas Clutterbuck of Watford (1784)
- Conversation in a Park (1746)
- Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819) (ca. 1780)
- Queen Charlotte
- A Boy with a Cat—Morning (1787)
- Lieutenant Colonel Paul Pechell (1724–1800)
- Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823) (1778)
- Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow (1770s)
- Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers) (1787)
- Wooded Upland Landscape (probably 1783)
- The Painter's Daughter Mary (1750–1826) (mid-19th century)
- John Eld of Seighford Hall, Stafford (1775)
- Mr and Mrs William Hallett ('The Morning Walk') (1785)
- Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748)
- Dr Ralph Schomberg (1770)
- Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter (1748)
- John Plampin (1752)
- The Painter's Daughters with a Cat (1760)
- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1783)
- Miss Catherine Tatton (1786)
- Mrs. John Taylor (c. 1778)
- Mountain Landscape with Bridge (c. 1783/1784)
- Mrs. Paul Cobb Methuen (c. 1776/1777)
- The Hon. Mrs. Thomas Graham (c. 1775/1777)
- John, 4th Earl of Darnley (1785)
- Francis Basset, Lord de Dunstanville (c. 1786)
- Frances Susanna, Lady de Dunstanville (c. 1786)
- Master John Heathcote (c. 1771/1772)
- William Yelverton Davenport (c. 1785/1788)
- Seashore with Fishermen (c. 1781/1782)
- Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1785-1787)