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Facts

Baptized May 14, 1727 • England
Died August 2, 1788 • London • England
Notable Works “The Blue Boy”
Movement / Style English school

Photos

Sudbury
Mrs. Graham by Thomas Gainsborough
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough showing Mrs. Sheridan seated outdoors in a pink dress, surrounded by lush trees and landscape, with soft light in the background.
Thomas Gainsborough: portrait of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Stringer Lawrence, oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Pennant, Thomas
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough
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J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
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Sir Thomas Lawrence
British artist
“View with the Roman Campagna,” watercolour by John Cozens, last quarter of the 18th century; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
John Robert Cozens
British artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter
Augustus John, self-portrait, chalk on paper, c. 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Augustus John
Welsh painter
Wilson, Richard: Lake Albano
Richard Wilson
British painter
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Palmer, Samuel: Eventide
Samuel Palmer
British painter
Rowlandson, Thomas: Comet
Thomas Rowlandson
English painter and caricaturist
Graham Sutherland.
Graham Sutherland
British artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Self-portrait by John Constable
John Constable
British artist
Joshua Reynolds: self-portrait
Joshua Reynolds
British painter
Nicholas Hilliard: A Young Man Among Roses
Nicholas Hilliard
English painter

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