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English Artist Thomas Gainsborough:
Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk on 14 May 1727 .Thomas Gainsborough was a landscape painter and famous British portraitist. Thomas Gainsborough was the younger son of John Gainsborough, a weaver of manufactured woolen goods. With great ability as a child, at the age of thirteen, Thomas Gainsborough father was impressed with Thomas Gainsborough's skills .So Thomas Gainsborough as an artist was allowed to go to London to study art in 1740.So Thomas Gainsborough began to study art formally in 13 years. In London, the first training Thomas Gainsborough got under Gravelot Hubert. It was started from the landscape in early, cause Thomas Gainsborough liked it most. But Thomas Gainsborough finally was associated with William Hogwarts and his school. It was one of Thomas Gainsborough’s mentor was Francis Hyman. In those years Thomas Gainsborough contributed to the decoration of the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and dinner boxes in the gardens of Vauxhall.
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After a few years,
in 1746, Thomas Gainsborough get married with Margaret Burr who the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, who settled on the 200 £ a year on the couple. The work of Thomas Gainsborough, then, consists mainly of paintings of landscapes, not sold very well. It was Thomas Gainsborough who began to move and draw images. Clients called Thomas Gainsborough and, with an arranged fee, Thomas Gainsborough would portray them. In general, his art was his job. He Sudbury in 1748-1749 and again focused on drawing pictures.
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In 1752, Thomas Gainsborough and his family moved to Ipswich, which now includes two daughters. payment for personal portraits increased, but Thomas Gainsborough clients were include mainly local merchants and feudal lords. So Thomas Gainsborough had to borrow shares of his wife.
So that the continuation of Thomas Gainsborough, in an attempt to socialize with the upper class in order to get more work and, of course, more money. Thomas Gainsborough had the opportunity of making portraits of some "celebrity" at the time, as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. During this period, Thomas Gainsborough portraits were full-length portraits in general, and pay great attention to detail. Thomas Gainsborough's paintings according to the costumes and clothes painted had great admiration among the upper class.
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In 1759, Thomas Gainsborough and his family moved to Bath. There, Thomas Gainsborough studied portraits by Van Dyck. Here Thomas Gainsborough was finally capable to appeal to a more profitable level. In 1761, Thomas Gainsborough began sending work to the exhibition of the Society of Arts, London (now the Royal Society of Arts, including Thomas Gainsborough was an early member), and from 1769, Thomas Gainsborough works presented at the annual Royal Academy exhibitions. Thomas Gainsborough selected portraits of clients known to the public for draw attention. These exhibitions have helped Thomas Gainsborough achieve a national status. And In 1769, Thomas Gainsborough was invited to become a founding member of the Royal Academy. Thomas Gainsborough association with the Academy, however, has been complicated and Thomas Gainsborough braked exhibiting his paintings in 1773.
In 1774, Thomas Gainsborough and his family moved to London to live in Schomberg House, Pall Mall .In 1777, Thomas Gainsborough again began to exhibit his paintings at the Royal Academy, including portraits of fashionable celebrities, like the Duke and Duchess Cumberland. Thomas Gainsborough Exhibition Work sustained over the next six years.
Thomas Gainsborough was marked by the speed with which Thomas Gainsborough asked his painting, and worked most of his observation of nature (and human nature) that a formal application of academic rules. The poetic sensibility of Thomas Gainsborough paintings caused constable said: "In the search for them, there are tears in my eyes and do not know what that brings." However, despite its success, Thomas Gainsborough hated portraits. Thomas Gainsborough said - "I'm sick of portraits, and wish very much to take my viol-da-gam [some kind of cello] and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landscapes (sic) and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness and ease.” When art is just a job, things like the following happen. Sadly, poor Thomas Gainsborough was famous for doing something that he did not loved. Even today Thomas Gainsborough is recognized as one of the best portrait painters of the 18th century.
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Thomas Gainsborough most renowned works such as Portrait of Mrs. Graham, Mary and Margaret: The daughter of painter William Hallett and his wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen, known as the Morning Walk and House Girl with Dog and Pitcher show the exceptional personality of his subjects
Assistant Gainsborough is known only by Thomas Gainsborough nephew, Gainsborough Dupont. In the last year of Thomas Gainsborough life, he collaborated with John Hoppner in painting full length portrait of Charlotte, Countess Talbot.
Thomas Gainsborough died of cancer on August 2 in 1788 at the age of 61 years and was buried in the church of Santa Ana, Kew, Surrey (Located on Kew Green.). Thomas Gainsborough is buried alongside Francis Bauer, famous botanical illustrator.
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