Thomas Gainsborough Art

Billboard size poster by Gainsborough from an exhibition held at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1981.

THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788) Portrait of the Rev. Richard Harris of Wymering Manor (1711-1768) Oil on canvas 30 x 25 in. (76 x 63.5 cm) 37 x 32 inche...

An original etching on wove paper after English artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) titled "Kirk Alloway" c. 1875. Frame ready: shrink wrapped and matting from Holland. Matted size: 20.25" x 16.5". Image size: 3.25" x 5". Mint condition. Thomas Gainsborough, (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788), was an English portrait and landscape painter. He left home in 1740 to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth. In 1746, he married Margaret Burr, and they became parents of two daughters. He moved to Bath in 1759 where fashionable society patronised him, and he began exhibiting in London. In 1769, he became a founding member of the Royal Academy, but his relationship with the organization was thorny and he sometimes withdrew his work from exhibition. Gainsborough moved to London in 1774, and painted portraits of the king and queen, but the king was obliged to name as royal painter Gainsborough's rival Joshua Reynolds. In his last years, Gainsborough painted relatively simple landscapes and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th century British landscape...

An original etching on wove paper after English artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) titled "Ellis Island" c. 1875. Frame ready: shrink wrapped and matting from Holland. Matted size: 20.25" x 16.5". Image size: 3.25" x 5". Mint condition. Thomas Gainsborough, (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788), was an English portrait and landscape painter. He left home in 1740 to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth. In 1746, he married Margaret Burr, and they became parents of two daughters. He moved to Bath in 1759 where fashionable society patronised him, and he began exhibiting in London. In 1769, he became a founding member of the Royal Academy, but his relationship with the organization was thorny and he sometimes withdrew his work from exhibition. Gainsborough moved to London in 1774, and painted portraits of the king and queen, but the king was obliged to name as royal painter Gainsborough's rival Joshua Reynolds. In his last years, Gainsborough painted relatively simple landscapes and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th century British landscape...