Презентація "Томас Гейнсборо"

Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods, and his wife, the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs. One of Gainsborough's brothers, Humphrey, had a faculty for mechanics and was said to have invented the method of condensing steam in a separate vessel, which was of great service to James Watt; another brother, John, was known as Scheming Jack because of his passion for designing curiosities. The artist spent his childhood at what is now Gainsborough's House, on Gainsborough Street, Sudbury. He later resided there, following the death of his father in 1748 and before his move to Ipswich. The building still survives and is now a house-museum dedicated to his life and art.

Dogs. Thomas Gainsborough had to grow up early. At the age of 13, he goes to London with the goal of becoming an artist, and from that time he already provides for himself. Gainsborough was a passionate admirer of landscape painting, and became famous and went down in history as a talented portrait painter, one of the first known works of the artist, completed in 1745, is a portrait of the Bumper Bull Terrier. On the back of the canvas, the artist left the inscription: "Remarkably smart dog."Gainsborough was very fond of animals and was a talented animalist, in portraits of his brush you can often see dogs next to people, which can often seem more characteristic and expressive than their owners.

Sudbury and Long Melford, Suffolk. Gainsborough's works became popular with collectors from the 1850s on, after Lionel de Rothschild began buying his portraits. The rapid rise in the value of pictures by Gainsborough and also by Reynolds in the mid 19th century was partly because the Rothschild family, including Ferdinand de Rothschild began collecting them. In 2011, Gainsborough's portrait of Miss Read (Mrs Frances Villebois) was sold by Michael Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray, for a record price of £6.5 M. She was a matrilineal descendant of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. Reputation

Around 1745 she went to a studio in the capital. In 1748 he buried his dead father and lives in Sudbury. From the 1750s he lived in Mr. Ipswich, where Thomas' older sister lived and where he had orders. In 1759 he moved to the resort town of Bath, where bags for people and where it was his fault to order portraits in the aristocracy. Since 1774 he has been an artist in London. He was married. The wife was the illegitimate daughter of the English magnate de Beaufort. Rumors of this made the family semi-secular, and the aristocracy considered them people almost in their circle. Gainsborough became a father and had 2 daughters. Documents show that the artist did not like books, but all his life he loved music. And he played several musical instruments.

Character. Most often, artists by nature are either ambitious and prone to shocking, or, conversely, shy, modest and prone to reflection. Gainsborough belonged to the second type: he did not believe in his talent until the end of his life, he was picky about himself. At the beginning of his career, Thomas did not have rich patrons, but thanks to his charisma and sociability, he quickly made friends. Colleagues of artists with whom he met on a life path, highly appreciated his abilities.

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