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(14 May 1727-2 August 1788)

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Thomas Gainsborough was a master of English school of painting. He was a portraitist and a landscape painter. He was born in Sudbury in 1727 and was the son of a merchant. His father sent him to London to study arts. He spent 8 years working and studying in London. There he got acquainted with the Flemish traditional school of painting. In his portraits green and blue colours predominate. Thomas Gainsborough was one of the best portraitists of his time.

He was the first British painter who painted British native countryside. Thomas was one of the originators of the eighteenth-century British landscape school. He painted a wagon of hay, a poor cottage, poor peasants. His works of landscape contain much poetry and music. His best works are «Blue Boy», «The Portrait of the Duchess of Beaufort», «Sara Siddons» and others. The particular discovery of Gainsborough was the creation of a form of art in which the characters and the background form a single unity. The landscape is not kept in the background, but in most cases man and nature are fused in a single whole through the atmospheric harmony of mood. Gainsborough emphasized that the natural background for his characters should be nature itself. His works, painted in clear and transparent tones, had a considerable influence on the artists of the English school. He was in advance of his time. His art became a forerunner of the Romantic Movement.

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Get introduced with oustanding masterpieces and compare them

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Get introduced with oustanding masterpieces and compare them

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NATIONAL GALLERY. LONDON:
1. Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter, about 1748.
2. Cornard Wood,near Sudbury, Suffolk.
3. Dr Ralph Schomberg.
4. John Plampin.
5. Mr and Mrs Andrews.
6. Mr and Mrs William Hallett.
7. Mrs Siddons.
8. Portrait of the Artist with his Wife  and Daughter.
9. The Painter`s Dauhters chasing  a Butterfly.
10. The Painter`s Daughters with a Cat.
11. The Watering Place.
NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND:
1. The Honourable Mrs Graham(1757 - 1792) 1775 - 1777 .
2. John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, about 1693 - 1770. Soldier.
3. Mrs Hamilton Nisbet (1756 - 1834).
4. Landscape with a View of a Distant Village.
5. Portrait of Robert Thistlethwayte of Norman Court, standing full-length, wearing a red coat, green waistcoat and buff breaches, holding a can.
6. Portrait of Selina Thistlethwayte of Norman Court, full-length in blue and white dress.
7. Rocky Landscape.
8. William Pitt, 1759 - 1806. Statesman.
9. Landscape, Bridge and Peasant.
10. Landscape Sketch - Clump of Trees with Four Cows.
11. Landscape Sketch - Study of Rocks.
12. Portrait of a Dutch Sea Captain.
13. A Boating Party.
14. A Girl.
15. Ploughing.
16. Wooded landscape with cows beside a pool, figures and cottage.
17. Wooded landscape with herdsman and cows.
18. Wooded landscape with country cart, cottage and figures.
19. Wooded river landscape with shepherd and sheep.
20. Wooded landscape with riders.
21. Wooded landscape with three cows at a pool.
22. Wooded upland landscape with riders and packhorses.
23. Wooded landscape with country cart and figures.
24. Landscape.
25. Paul Whitehead, 1710 - 1774. Satirist.
HERMITAGE MUSEUM:
1. Lady in Blue.

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Statue of Thomas Gainsborough, Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk

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Statue of Thomas Gainsborough, Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk

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The memorial was in honour of Thomas Gainsborough, one of the most famous painters of the eighteenth century. Sudbury was Gainsborough's town of birth. The Bronze figure was made by the Australian sculptor Sir Bertram Mackennal in 1913. Before this he had sculpted the Coronation medal for King George V.

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Choose one of the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough and describe it.

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In 1958, Gainsborough’s House Society was formed to purchase the house and establish it as a centre for Thomas Gainsborough. The Museum opened to the public in 1961 and has remained open for over 50 years. The beautiful historic garden at the heart of Gainsborough’s House is maintained by a devoted body of volunteers, who garden exclusively with plants that were available in Gainsborough’s lifetime.