Thomas Beach Art

This exquisite portrait, presented by Titan Fine Art, bears testimony to the artist’s ability to convey not just a likeness but also a sense of the character of the sitter. The offi...

A saddled chestnut hunter tethered to a post at the entrance to stables with a wooded landscape and a hill beyond. Signed and dated lower left, 'T. Beach pt., 1785'. Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Christie's 28 May 1999. lot 15 Thomas Beach was essentially known as a portrait artist and the present painting is a rare example of his skill as an animal painter. His ability to convey a sense of the character of his sitters is evident here in the remarkably sensitive portrayal of the horse's expression. Beach painted...

Portrait of William Craven, 6th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire (1738-1791), three-quarter length, standing in an interior, wearing a blue silk embroidered waistcoat under a pale green jacket with silver buttons, resting his right hand on a cane and his left in his pocket, wearing a powdered wig. Provenance: The collection of Anthony Boyden, Dewlish, Dorset. During conservation and restoration of the portrait, the revealing of various pentimenti in the sitter's clothing and posture, suggest that it may have been the basis for a more complex full-length version painted by Beach in 1778 of William holding the architectural plans in his study of Benham Park, the country seat of the Cravens in Berkshire. This was listed in the paintings inventory of Coombe Abbey, the primary seat of the Earls of Craven in Warwickshire in 1866 and sold at Sotheby's Paris in the Robert de Balkany...

Portrait of Mrs Maria Anne Penruddocke, three-quarter length, in a white dress with blue sash, holding a book seated on a green damask covered sofa...

Thomas Beach 1738 – 1806 Portrait of the Masters Blair: Charles and Henry Blair, the Children of Charles Blair and Lady Mary Fane, full length, wearing green and red suits of clothes, playing cup and ball in a landscape Signed ‘TBeach pinx”and indistinctly dated 1769’ (T and B in monogram; lower left) Oil painting on canvas 50 ¼ x 40 in. (127.5 x 101.5 cm.) and contained in its original carved and gilded frame Provenance: By inheritance in the Blair, Michel and De Montmorency families, until 1981 at Bowling Green, Sherborne, Dorset, to the present owner. Literature: Elise S...

He studied in London with Joshua Reynolds (picture left) from 1760 until early in 1762, during which time he was also a student at St Martin's Lane Academy. Reynolds, having returned from studying the 'Old Masters' in Italy in 1752 had by 1760 established himself as a portrait painter of some renown. He worked long hours in his studio, was both gregarious and keenly intellectual and had a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke...