Richard Hayman
Thomas Gainsborough 14th May 1727 to 2nd August 1788
Another one of my favourite artist is Thomas Gainsborough who was famous for his picvture of “The Blue Boy” and family portraits and rural scenes. He was the son of a schoolteacher and was born on 14th May in Sudbury, Suffolk in 1727.
He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let him go to London to study art in 1740. As a child he copied famous paintings and at fourteen was sent to London where he trained under Hubert Gravelot. He first trained under engraver Hubert Gravelot.but eventually became associated with William Hogarth and his school. One of his mentors was Francis Hayman in those years he contributed to the decoration of what is now the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and the supper boxes at Vauxhall Gardens.
n 1745 Gainsborough married Margaret Burr, the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort who settled a £200 annuity on the couple and established himself as a painter at Ipswich. He developed the subject-matter of small portrait groups, set in a realistic landscape. His most famous painting of this period is Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748). The artist’s work, then mainly composed of landscape paintings, was not selling very well.
He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on the painting of portraits.
In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, moved to Ipswich Commissions for personal portraits increased, but his clientele included mainly local merchants and squires. He had to borrow against his wife’s annuity.
In 1759, Gainsborough and his family moved to Bath. There, he studied portraits by Van Dyck and was eventually able to attract a better-paying high society clientele. In 1761, he began to send work to the Society of Arts exhibition in London (now the Royal Society of Arts, of which he was one of the earliest members); and from 1769 on, he submitted works to the Royal Academy’s annual exhibitions.
He selected portraits of well-known or notorious clients in order to attract attention. These exhibitions helped him acquire a national reputation, and he was invited to become one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1769. His relationship with the academy, however, was not an easy one and he stopped exhibiting his paintings there in 1773.
In 1774 Gainsborough moved to London’s Schomberg House, Pall Mall where he became a foundation member of the Royal Academy. In 1777, he again began to exhibit his paintings at the Royal Academy, including portraits of contemporary celebrities, such as the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. Exhibitions of his work continued for the next six years.
In 1780, he painted the portraits of King Gorge III and his queen and afterwards received many royal commissions. This gave him some influence with the Academy and allowed him to dictate the manner in which he wished his work to be exhibited. However, in 1783, he removed his paintings from the forthcoming exhibition and transferred them to Schomberg House.
However he had several disagreements with the Academy about the selection of his paintings and refused to exhibit there after 1784.
By the 1780s Gainsborough and his rivals, Joshua Reynolds and Allan Ramsay were considered to be the best portrait painters in England. All three painted George III but it was claimed that the royal family preferred Gainsborough’s portraits.
In his later years, Gainsborough often painted relatively simple, ordinary landscapes. With Richard Wilson he was one of the originators of the eighteenth-century British landscape school; though simultaneously, in conjunction with Sir Joshua Reynolds, he was the dominant Britishn portraitist of the second half of the 18th century.
He died of cancer on 2nd August 1788 at the age of 61 and is interred at St. Anne’s Church, Kew, Surrey (located on Kew Green). He is buried next to Francis Bauer, the famous botanical illustrator.
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Copyright © 2011 Paul Hussey. All Rights Reserved.
About the Author
I have recently decided to write articles on my favourite subjects: English Sports, English History, English Icons, English Discoveries and English Inventions.
At present I have written many articles which I call “An Englishman’s Favourite Bits Of England” as various chapters.
The Chinese call Britain ‘The Island of Hero’s’ which I think sums up what we British are all about. We British are inquisitive and competitive and are always looking over the horizon to the next adventure and discovery.
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