Painter name: Thomas Gainshorough Form of art belong: Rococo
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788), an English painter.
Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, and died in London.
His father was a wool manufacturer. Young Gainsborough went up
to London in his fifteenth year, where he studied engraving and
drawing. In 1745 he returned to Sudbury and set up a studio as a
portrait painter. Fifteen years later Gainsborough removed to
Bath, then a fashionable resort, where he won reputation as a
painter of portraits. In 1774 he left Bath for London.
Gainsborough was one of the original thirty-six members of the
Royal Academy. He painted over two hundred portraits. Many of
these are preserved in the galleries of Dublin, Glasgow,
Edinburgh, and London. He painted eight portraits of George III.
Among the notables who sat for him were Mrs. Siddons, the
Duchess of Devonshire, the Duke of Argyll, George III, the
Prince of Wales, afterward crowned George IV, Lord Cornwallis,
Pitt, Blackstone, Clive, Burke, and Benjamin Fra