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https://flic.kr/p/aiu9Da | Thomas Gainsborough - The Painter's Daughters with a Cat [c.1760-61] | Gainsborough's daughters Mary and Margaret were baptised in February 1750 and August 1751. Mary appears to be about nine or ten years old, and Margaret about eight or nine. Gainsborough had moved with his family from Ipswich to Bath in the autumn of 1759 and this work may therefore have been painted in Bath rather than in Ipswich. The painting is unfinished, but the outlines of a cat whose tail ... Lisa Portrait, Purple Couch, 18th Century Art, Illustration Art Nouveau, National Gallery London, Purring Cat, Jungle Cats, William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough

Gainsborough's daughters Mary and Margaret were baptised in February 1750 and August 1751. Mary appears to be about nine or ten years old, and Margaret about eight or nine. Gainsborough had moved with his family from Ipswich to Bath in the autumn of 1759 and this work may therefore have been painted in Bath rather than in Ipswich. The painting is unfinished, but the outlines of a cat whose tail is being pulled can be seen on the lap of the elder girl. [Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 62.9 cm]…

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Thomas Gainsborough: A Thirst For Visible Originality - Edward Lucie-Smith - Artlyst Jean Antoine Watteau, Georgian Art, 18th Century Art, Joshua Reynolds, 18th Century Portraits, Thomas Gainsborough, Art Thomas, Barbara Ann, Tate Gallery

After various adventures away from its traditional subject-matter – the recent Michael Jackson show being a case in point, the National Portrait Gallery returns to familiar territory with a show devoted to Thomas Gainsborough, by general consensus one of the most brilliant portrait painters to have worked in Britain. Native-born into the bargain, unlike his predecessors Holbein and Van Dyck.

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