![]() ![]() To see more artworks by this artist, please click here. Periods: Rococo, Renaissance, Romanticism. His later work was characterised by a light palette and easy, economical strokes. He said, "I am sick of portraits and wish very much to take my viol-da-gam and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips (sic) and enjoy the fag end of life in quietness & ease." His landscapes were often painted at night by candlelight, using a tabletop arrangement of stones, pieces of mirrors, broccoli, and the like as a model. giving him a SOLDIER uniform to wear as his old clothes were soaked with mako. Gainsborough's enthusiasm for landscapes is shown in the way he merged figures of the portraits with the scenes behind them. Cloud lived next door to a girl a year younger than him, Tifa Lockhart. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. ![]() The works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. (British, 17271788) British 1727 1788 Title: Portrait of a lady in a blue dress Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 77 x 63.5 cm. When Juliana first sat for Romney in May. The sun bonnet rises upward to the left at an angle exactly opposite that of the hillside’s steep slope. The composition is as elegant as the tonality. Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (1727 - 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. The entire color scheme, centered on the pure white dress, is nothing more or less than pastel tints of the three primary hues: red, yellow, and blue. Art Name: Lady Anne Thistlethwaite Countess Of Chesterfield In A Blue Dress ![]()
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