(1750–1826) Mary “Molly” Fischer, née Gainsborough Mary in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters c.1763–1764 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Mary 1777 Tate Britain, London Father Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mother Margaret Burr (1728-1798) Sister…
(1751–1820) Margaret “Peggy” Gainsborough Margaret in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters c.1763–1764 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Margaret c.1772 Tate Britain, London Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Margaret Gainsborough holding a…
(?-1748) Mary in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter c.1748 National Gallery, London Father Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mother Margaret Burr (1728-1798) Sister Mary Gainsborough (1750-1826) Brother-in-law Johann Christian Fischer (c.1733-1800) Sister Margaret Gainsborough (1751-1820)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy c.1777 Oil on canvas, 83.2 × 111.8 cm Tate Britain, London The two dogs in this painting belonged to the musician Carl Friedrich Abel, the last of the great viola da gamba virtuosi. Abel was…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Tristram and Fox c.1775–1785 Oil on canvas, 61 × 50.8 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough had a countryman’s love of dogs and included them in numerous portraits and landscape paintings. He also painted a few works where dogs…
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Le Coup de lumière (Effect of Light) 1935 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 61.6 cm Tate Britain, London Although this picture was dated 1926 when exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, its first owner, Sam Salz, said that it…
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Not a Shoe 1950 Galvanized plaster, 7 x 5.1 × 2.5 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Coin de chasteté (Wedge of Chastity) 1954, cast 1963 Bronze and plastic, 63 x 87 × 42 cm Tate Britain, London In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale ‘erotic objects’: Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection),…
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Objet-Dard (Dart Object) 1951, cast 1962 Bronze, 78 x 197 × 90 cm Tate Britain, London In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale ‘erotic objects’: Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection), Female Fig Leaf (1961…
Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968) Feuille de vigne femelle (Female Fig Leaf) 1950, cast 1961 Bronze, 90 x 137 × 125 cm Tate Britain, London In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale ‘erotic objects’: Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection),…